{"id":103742,"date":"2025-10-27T16:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T16:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/103742\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T16:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T16:53:08","slug":"more-than-500000-fines-given-by-auckland-transports-licence-plate-recognition-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/103742\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 500,000 fines given by Auckland Transport\u2019s licence plate recognition vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Parking Services group manager John Strawbridge said the rise was because the fleet increased from nine cars in 2023 to 16 last year. <\/p>\n

He said the most common type of infringement is failing to pay for parking in paid zones. <\/p>\n

\"AucklandAuckland Transport group manager of parking services John Strawbridge says the most common type of infringement is failing to pay for parking in paid zones. \u00a0Photo \/ Chris Gorman, File<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a $70 fine. It does my head in because if you use the AT Park app, for example, you only pay for the short time you\u2019re there.\u201d <\/p>\n

He said people would very rarely pay $70. <\/p>\n

AA policy director Martin Glynn said the jump between 2023 and 2024 is large, and they had asked AT about it. <\/p>\n

He said he hopes the system is being used for the stated goal of keeping parking spots clear. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn the past year or so, they\u2019ve been set some pretty big revenue targets by the mayor and Auckland Council from areas they can get revenue from, including parking.\u201d <\/p>\n

Strawbridge said while no one likes getting a parking fine, there needs to be a way to manage kerbs and other spots.<\/a> <\/p>\n

\u201cIf we didn\u2019t manage the kerbside, there\u2019d be cars parked everywhere, it would be unsafe, and there\u2019d be very limited opportunity for people to come into the city and find a spot,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Strawbridge said the Auckland Domain is a good example of how the license plate recognition vehicles had helped, with the consistent enforcement keeping the domain at 65% capacity.<\/p>\n

\"StrawbridgeStrawbridge said the Auckland Domain is a good example of how the licence plate recognition vehicles had helped, with the consistent enforcement keeping the domain at 65% capacity. Photo\/ Hayden Woodward <\/p>\n

\u201cPrior to the LPR cars, we were only able to get up there on foot infrequently, so there was no parking availability.\u201d <\/p>\n

Glynn said the cars provide another potential benefit. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe know it\u2019s become more unsafe for parking wardens, so there\u2019s an advantage to doing it in that automated way where people don\u2019t receive their tickets on the spot.\u201d <\/p>\n

Jacob Jones is a Newstalk ZB reporter working out of the Auckland newsroom. He has an interest in council and local government issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parking Services group manager John Strawbridge said the rise was because the fleet increased from nine cars in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[62485,51,1558,138,3595,15211,8987,19724,305,19339,130,111,139,69,75374,9426,31340,131,75373,6861],"class_list":["post-103742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-62485","tag-auckland","tag-been","tag-business","tag-by","tag-drivers","tag-fines","tag-given","tag-have","tag-licence","tag-more","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pinged","tag-plate","tag-recognition","tag-than","tag-transports","tag-vehicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}