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If you’ve ever gotten in touch with the D.C. Department of Transportation, it was probably to let them know that one of their parking meters was busted.

According to a report from the department, it handled 175,537 service requests for busted parking meters in fiscal 2012, fully 82 percent of all of the requests it received. (Trees stood at second with seven percent, followed by streetlights just under four percent.) All told, said the department, it handled them well, closing 99.98 percent of the requests for meter repairs.

DDOT manages some 17,000 metered on-street parking spots throughout the city.