Parking Meters – one step too many
I am going to have to make a correction on my post for the new parking meters. I mentioned that one had to print out a ticket and display it in their dash; however, it turns out that this is merely something done in Toronto. These new meters in Detroit do not seem to require that step.
really?? how then do they know that you paid?
Apparently the law enforcers check each box to make sure that the cars in each spot paid the proper amount. This is the information I got from someone in East Lansing.
Yes, they have boxes similar to those in East Lansing. I have used them many times. It works like this – You park in a spot and remember the number of the spot. You walk over to the machine, pay with credit/cash and it starts the timer for your spot.
The reason the city likes these is because they can check all of the meters remotely and dispatch cars and/or they can check all of the meters at once.
That is so sneaky. You can’t get away with anything anymore. I saw some poor guy who had to go back to his car to get his reading glasses to read the instructions on the box.