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Meter Feeder 2
Every parking spot is a virtual parking garage. You arrive, swipe the credit card, get billed correct amount for parking in that spot | |
I hate to feed the meter and then leave with 20 minutes still left in the meter and see someone park in my spot as soon as I leave! On the other hand, I also hate to feed the meter and then realize I need to go back and feed it some more while I am in line at the grocery store or at the dentist. I hate
dentists! ANYway, imagine a parking spot where you park and swipe the credit card in the meter for that spot. The meter will stop billing when you move out of the spot- this can be done using detectors embeded in the road, the kind we use for traffic lights. The concept of a parking ticket is gone with this approach. No more parking tickets...imagine that for one second...
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Seattle (and I believe many other cities) has a new system where you pay by credit card or cash, and it prints out a sticker for you to put on your window. You can use this sticker throughout the city until your time runs out. |
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Your system does have the nice advantage of not having to guess how long you'll need parking. The only problem I can forsee is that a faulty sensor will bill your credit card for a whole day's use. |
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The purpose of having a meter expire is to prevent
you from tying up the space all day. That is why the
maximum time is limited. |
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Some parking meters detect when a vehicle leaves
the spot and immediately violate the spot so a fellow
parker does not get your leftover time, but rather it
goes to the city's coffers. |
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When I first moved to Oz I was puzzled by a radio news report that the unionized staff of a local small town were going on strike over a dispute about who got to look after the town's coin collection. I thought they meant "who gets to sort and polish the collection of 1932 - 1938 shillings" and wondered why they couldn't just take turns or something. |
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But it turned out that the dispute was about the gathering in of coins from parking meters which was/is a surprisingly large endeavour. You can see the advantages of an automated credit card system. Sort of "if you can't play nicely and share the coin collection then I will take it away so NOBODY gets it." |
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