See here. Specific neighborhoods haven’t been announced, yet.
March, 2010
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Mar 10
“Smart” Parking coming to San Francisco
San Francisco is putting the finishing touches on SFPark, a “smart” parking system that will alert drivers to open parking spaces and even adjust hourly meter costs based on demand. This is touted as a way to improve parking availabilty. The city claims “SMFTA expects to issue fewer parking tickets due to longer time limits at meters that offer easier payment options.” However, the opposite is more likely to be true. If the city knows a car is in a parking spot with the meter expired, why wouldn’t they rush over to ticket the car? Parking enforcement officers will no longer have to drive around looking for expired meters. Instead, the network will tell them exactly where to find ticketable offenses.
What do you think? Good for drivers, or good for the city?
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Mar 10
Parkzing now supports Chicago and Washington D.C.
Good news! Chicago and D.C. are the latest cities to be added to Parkzing. Now citizens of the Windy City and our Nation’s Capitol can use Parkzing to avoid parking ticket late fees.
A recent WUSA story pegged the annual take from D.C. parking tickets to be $106 million (but only $70M was collected). USA Today reported in 2004 that the projected parking ticket revenue was $170 million. It’s probably a lot more today. It’s not clear how much late fees factor into those figures, but hopefully it’s a lot less now that Parkzing is in town!
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Mar 10
NYC ticket agent issues 227 tickets in one day
A traffic enforcement agent in NYC issued an amazing 227 tickets in just 5 hours. Also noteworthy: The day after Thanksgiving is the most-ticketed day in NYC — too many people think it’s a holiday and don’t pay the meters.
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Mar 10
Sticket.net is now Parkzing.com!
Based on feedback from our early users, the Sticket.net name wasn’t a fan-favorite. We’ve migrated to a “.com” name now, but you’ll probably see the “sticket” name in a few dark corners until we work out the kinks. Please let us know if you find any issues!
Love,
The Parkzing team