Mrs Reid said most residents had parked their cars in the wrong direction in Thomson St for years without issue, until yesterday.
Parking tickets were issued for all the cars parked facing the wrong way yesterday.
''It's pretty shocking that the council can just suddenly do this.''
It was easier parking in the opposite direction in the ''dead-end, quiet and skinny'' street and most residents had parked that way for several years, Mrs Reid said.
A warning would have sufficed, she said.
''Going into a dead-end street in a suburb and giving everybody a ticket is so unfair. We are all good abiding citizens. If we were given a warning notice, we would have immediately turned our cars around.''
Council parking enforcement team leader Daphne Griffen said somebody complained to the council yesterday about the cars and ''four or five'' tickets were issued. The council never issued warning notices, she said.
''Absolutely not.''
A car could not be parked in the wrong direction because if the car's headlights were on, it could ''blind'' the driver of an oncoming car.
''It's illegal to drive on the wrong side of the road, which you have to do to park in that manner and they would be committing a moving offence, too. However, we are only interested in the stationary offence.''
Mrs Reid's neighbour, Bex Schroder (31), said her car was parked outside her home yesterday and she was given a $440 ticket.
She had no off-street parking and had parked the same way in the ''small, secluded'' street for the past four years, she said.
The ticket was $40 for parking the wrong way and $400 for no warrant of fitness or registration.
She had not been using her car and was booked in for a warrant on Friday, she said.
She doubted that somebody had complained to the council because everybody knew each other in the street.
She believed the council was targeting the suburbs to collect revenue.
''They have to pay for the stadium somehow,'' Mrs Schroder said.
