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And of course the new smart system will enable parking enforcers to give you a ticket more quickly and efficiently as they will certainly have devices in their
by hristov 16y ago
And of course the new smart system will enable parking enforcers to give you a ticket more quickly and efficiently as they will certainly have devices in their cars that indicate immediately when any meter in the neighborhood expires while a car is still parked there. I suspect this is the major motivation.
- philwelch 16y agoYou make a lot more money off parking tickets than you make off of parking meters.
- ryanwaggoner 16y agoSource?
- philwelch 16y agoSan Francisco parking fine revenue is on the order of $100 million, annually: http://articles.sfgate.com/2008-08-01/bay-area/17122003_1_meter-violations-higher-fines-parking-operations http://articles.sfgate.com/2008-08-01/bay-area/17122003_1_me... Parking meter revenue for three years doesn't match that: http://articles.sfgate.com/2007-01-25/bay-area/17226881_1_meter-revenue-parking-meters-collection-rates http://articles.sfgate.com/2007-01-25/bay-area/17226881_1_me... True, not all tickets are written for meters, but it's clearly in the city's revenue-earning interest to make it more difficult to legally park and write more tickets. And since a parking meter earns $55-65 with a ticket but only $2-3.50 for an hour of legitimate parking, an entire day or two of legitimate meter use earns the city exactly as much money as a single meter violation. Some municipalities--Seattle, as I recall--expressly prohibit paying a parking meter that isn't yours; the only reasonable rationale for this is to increase ticketing rates.
- rjett 16y agoI can't find the article now, but there was something here a month or so ago about the new parking meters in San Fran. I believe you'll be able to add time to your meter and get alerts that you're running low via mobile phone with these new meters.