[stegosaurus]

The only time I've ever had a parking ticket (80GBP) was in an area that only accepted payment via phone call.

I had no signal, so I decided to leave the vehicle and go to work, I'll pay for it when I get back, humans are generally reasonable folk, aren't they. Came back to a ticket and invested about an hour in trying to fight it before giving up.

Since then I am extremely skeptical of 'paying for parking' in general and have tried to find free bays. I'm willing to pay a few quid for parking, I'm not willing to risk a ticket (and the associated general angst at some bureaucrat having the power to arbitrarily steal money from me).

I'd appreciate a system that sent me a bill in the post for sitting in a spot and required payment within 2 weeks or something. Penalties for non-immediate-payment seem like an oddly antagonistic policy at this point, given that we have a nationwide database linking car plates to owners.

This is probably all different in the US, just adding my 2p. :)

[timemachine]

Hi. I agree! Parking is a hassle everywhere, even in the US. Meter Feeder is working to challenge the pain points of parking and create a new and better way.

One of the goals of our system has always been to augment existing systems instead of replacing them.

- Dan, Meter Feeder CTO