Racing back to a parking meter to pay it before a cop notices it expired may not be an option for El Paso drivers much longer.\u00a0The meters themselves will start tipping off the city.<\/p>\n
You knw the drill, you find a parking spot, pay the meter and then set an alarm on your phone to tell you when to go back but sometimes you don’t quite make it. No biggie as long as you get there before the cops. Right?<\/p>\n
Some folks don’t pay at all if it’s close to the 6pm cutoff time, gambling a cop won’t come along until after 6. Pretty soon, neither of those tricks will work …<\/p>\n
As if we don’t have enough computer driven, automated, “big brother” crap around us; here comes another score for Skynet<\/a> – tattle tale parking meters.<\/p>\n El Paso Parking Meters Snitch On Drivers<\/p>\n Yep, you read that right.\u00a0 Your parking meter will soon be able to have a ticket issued to you if you don’t pay up on time or if you don’t pay at al.<\/p>\n At Tuesday’s city council meeting, El Paso code enforcement Director Steve Alvarado is proposing an automated parking enforcement system that would allow the city to use \u201celectronically controlled operating parking systems\u201d and \u201cimplement feature technology to allow us to increase parking enforcement citywide,\u201d he said. – kfoxtv<\/a><\/p>\n New Equipment “Talks” To El Paso Parking Meters<\/p>\n \u00a0Alvarado said the city is looking at \u201creal-time digital handheld ticket riders\u201d that would communicate with the parking meters to verify whether a vehicle has paid. –\u00a0kfoxtv<\/a><\/p>\n The plan also calls for new license plate recognition technology which can also tell Big Brother whether or not a vehicle paid for its parking spot and would totally squeal on repeat offenders.<\/p>\n El Paso city may also put fixed cameras in certain areas during high traffic times to watch for deadbeat parkers. If you get busted, you won’t even know it until the ticket shows up in the mail. If you get a ticket now, you have 14 days to pay it, under the new mailing system, drivers get 21 days.<\/p>\n Where Will The Smart Meters Be?<\/p>\n At first, some parts of downtown and the Cinci street area but, eventually, it will be city wide.<\/p>\n The Cinci street area already has a type of metered parking in some parts where drivers have to scan a QR code. When I entered my credit card info to pay for my parking spot, it used my info to charge a subscription to some sports betting site.<\/p>\n