Parking Violators Could Lose Break

A program that offers reduced parking-ticket fines is set to expire.

In what several politicians are blasting as just one more way to raise revenue through fees, the city’s Department of Finance is considering an end to reduced penalties for New Yorkers who agree not to fight their violations in court, The Post has learned.

A source said Finance Commissioner David Frankel is seriously contemplating ditching the popular 5-year-old program, which allows Manhattan parking violators to pay $43 instead of $65 for alternate-side and expired-meter tickets if they don’t appeal.

Outer-borough drivers are charged $32 instead of $45 for the same infractions for not fighting the tickets. Double-parking fees are dropped from $115 to $90 in all boroughs.

Those who lose their appeals in court are currently required to pay the full fines.

“If there was ever any doubt that the city views parking tickets strictly as a revenue-raiser, this extinguishes all doubt,” fumed City Councilman James Vacca (D-Bronx), who chairs the Transportation Committee.

“The onslaught of tickets has become unbearable over the past 10 years.”

City officials said any change is still being studied.

“No decisions have been made,” Finance spokesman Owen Stone said.

But Councilman James Oddo (R-SI) called the potential squashing of the program a “cash grab.”

“My concern . . . is that folks wouldn’t be able to give up a day of work to fight a ticket [in court], and would now simply pay the full amount,” said Oddo when told of the city’s possible move.

More than half of New Yorkers who got parking tickets took advantage of the reduced-fine program, as of last year.