After a marathon presentation on Tuesday, the Mayor and Council approved a state-of-the-art parking payment and enforcement system for the streets and municipal lots in the downtown area to the tune of nearly $600,000. After considerable debate, the elected officials also approved the parking system for the Inlet lot, which has seen more than its share of issues in recent years.
The new system utilizes license plate reader technology and will result in a switch from the current “pay-and-display” system to a “pay-by-plate” system. Visitors and residents will still park wherever they find open spaces on the streets and municipal lots in the downtown area and visit a nearby kiosk to make payment arrangements for their desired time periods. However, instead of printing a receipt to be displayed on the dashboard of their vehicle, they will enter their license plate information. Parking enforcement officials will then be able to scan the vehicle’s license plate to determine if they have paid for parking and are not expired.
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7 comments:
All in an effort to feed the "big data machine.
Sheeple
Usually when these are installed, they require front in parking only because not all states require front plates. This leads to more accidents. It is proven that backing into a parking space is safer since there is no cross traffic when back in and you pull out being able to see oncoming traffic in the parking lot. Many of you can drive in a straight line. This should be interesting.
Do you think they will use the tag data for any other purpose?
11:59 Don't be so naive, and stupid, of course they want to use this data for other purposes... Maybe even sell it to the highest bidder... Why else do they need to collect this data, in the first place and then store it, why store it???? To be used again that is why!!!!!!!!!
11:59 AM nice flawed theory on pull ahead parking. Whats the difference? They have to back up either way whether parking or pulling out. Have you ever been to OC? Ever been to OC and park on one of those narrow side street? And you want them to back it? Hysterical?
This will confuse older peoplem
12:37 He's talking about parking lots not side streets and when you back into a spot there os zero chance that a vehicle is crossing your path since you have parking spots on either side of you. Backing out of a spot into the travel lanes when your vision is blocked by vehicles on either side of you is dangerous.
I'm surprised they don't give you a ticket with a RFID chip to track everywhere you go.
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