From: "Mark" 

NJ 

"Ellen K."  wrote in message
news:6biai11ql43m2ooqh7u7k0uksb3ctenm1t{at}4ax.com...
> Where are you located?
>
> On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:21:53 -0400, "Mark"
 wrote in
> message :
>
>>This is beachfront parking (most towns are $1/hr) with an average stay of
>>perhaps 4-5 hours, i.e. arrive at 9AM, leave at 1-2PM. Sure a few will
>>arrive at 8AM and leave at 6PM but they're in a distinct minority. More
>>often the earlybirds leave and the nightowls arrive to take their spots
>>for
>>the second 4-5 hour shift of shiftlessness on the sand 
>are gathered up and stored for the winter starting toward the end of this
>>month - I wonder if they'll leave the kiosk section active all year
>>though>
>>
>>One of those $1/towns is using the stall meters, but with the proximity
>>sensor to reset it to zero when your car backs out. My town put in about 3
>>of those (near me, they may have put more in other test locations as
>>well --
>>err, I'm not sure if they're the proximity version, but they're digital
>>instead of wind-up) and every day there were cars in those spots with
>>notes
>>on their windsheilds "I put in $x.xx, the meter is
broken" I don't recall
>>seeing any tickets on them as well, so our town has a heart I guess 
>>
>>
>>"Ellen K."  wrote in message
>>news:vh99i19l4jtveufttinhl16th2bvj1cq76{at}4ax.com...
>>> On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 16:59:20 -0400, "Mark"
 wrote in
>>> message :
>>>
>>>>Couldn't find the original thread. It turns out that the
next town over
>>>>put
>>>>in those kiosk style things and set the rate at $2/hour, which is 50
>>>>cents
>>>>more than the meters they replaced. As if that weren't bad
enough, they
>>>>don't give change, one lady in the story had put in a $20 bill and
>>>>expected
>>>>change... Instead she got 10 hours of parking.
>>>>
>>>>No refunds, well until a lot of complaints, so now if you on your own
>>>>initiative convince the cheif of police that you made an honest error
>>>>he'll
>>>>direct the clerk to give you a refund. The mayor says: "... the
>>>>financial
>>>>benefit to the borough outweighs those problems." And *former*
>>>>councilman
>>>>Loughran, whose idea it was last year before he *lost* his
re-election
>>>>bid
>>>>said, "My main idea when I started was to increase
revenue and I've done
>>>>that."
>>>>
>>>>Now here's the coup de grace: The cops are writing tickets on cars
>>>>anyway,
>>>>sometimes 10 minutes into their 2 hours etc. One lady plead
not guilty,
>>>>waited 4 hours to do it, then was told she had to see the
officer that
>>>>wrote
>>>>the ticket but he wasn't there. Her husband went back for the new
>>>>hearing
>>>>and they gave up and paid the fine.
>>>
>>> In California I think you subpoena the officer and if s/he doesn't show
>>> up you win automatically.
>>>>
>>>>Sheesh! >>>the
>>>>$20 bill people aren't entirely without fault, on the other hand very
>>>>few
>>>>people would ever want to park for 10 hours, so they should probably
>>>>allow
>>>>it to accept only singles or no more than a $5 bill -- they won't>
>>>
>>> There is 10-hour parking in front of my company's building... used by
>>> the folks who don't have a building parking pass and who get there early
>>> enough to grab one of the street spaces.  Comes out cheaper than parking
>>> in the building over the course of a month, because we have to pay
>>> $45/mo to park in the building, but the 10-hour parking only costs $1.
>>> Takes a year (or more -- 13 months in my case) to get to the top of the
>>> waiting list for a space in the building, most people park on the street
>>> and then waste huge amounts of time moving their cars every two hours...
>>> personally I just paid for a space in the building across the street,
>>> but it was more expensive than ours (company only subsidizes $40 worth)
>>> and added a good 10 minutes each way to my commute.
>>>>
>>>
>>
>

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