Parking Meters In El Paso May Start Ratting Out Drivers

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. The meters themselves will start tipping off the city.

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?

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 ...

As if we don't have enough computer driven, automated, "big brother" crap around us; here comes another score for Skynet - tattle tale parking meters.

El Paso Parking Meters Snitch On Drivers

Yep, you read that right.  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.

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 “electronically controlled operating parking systems” and “implement feature technology to allow us to increase parking enforcement citywide,” he said. - kfoxtv

New Equipment "Talks" To El Paso Parking Meters

 Alvarado said the city is looking at “real-time digital handheld ticket riders” that would communicate with the parking meters to verify whether a vehicle has paid. - kfoxtv

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.

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.

Where Will The Smart Meters Be?

At first, some parts of downtown and the Cinci street area but, eventually, it will be city wide.

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.

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THEEEEEN, before I noticed that, it STILL gave me a ticket for not paying for my parking spot. Neither I, nor others who had similar issues have been back.

As often as my friends and I go out and as long as we tend to stay, that BS system cost the bars on Cincy a lot of money.