Re: You Can't Foil These Parking Meters/Technology Makes it Easier

This article made me remember an experience I had when I was working with SkyTel.

I was on a business trip to Colorado. First we ran all over Denver optimizing the SkyTel paging system. Then we went out to Vail and Aspen to work on the systems there.

I can't now remember if this happened in Aspen or in Vail. But it was one of them.

They had non-metered forty-five minute parking zones. They 'chalked' you as described in the article, an officer came by and typed your tag number into his wireless terminal. It was time stamped into the computer.

So, when another officer comes back by and types it in again and you are over the time limit, the wireless terminal printed you out a parking ticket.

We had parked our rental vehicle in a forty-five minute zone. I neglected to notice what time we actually parked. We didn't expect to be there for more than a few minutes. But there was a problem with the equipment on the site and we had to stay to get it fixed.

When we returned to the vehicle, there was a parking ticket on it. When I looked at the chalk time versus the time the ticket was issued, the difference of the times was only thirty-eight minutes.

I called the parking ticket supervisor at the town hall, gave him the ticket number so he could pull it up in the system, and asked him to explain that one to me. I pointed out that the sign said forty-five minutes.

He was reluctant, but he deleted the ticket from the system and told us not to worry about paying it.

So much for modern technology. Fewer challenges, huh?

Fred

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