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KCMO to test new parking technology

October 20, 2007 | 6 Comments

The city is soliciting bids for a demonstration project of multi-space parking stations in Downtown’s Library District. Such a system would eliminate individual parking meetings and replace them Pay and Display machines where you pay for parking and get a receipt that goes in the window of your car.  The advantage for motorists is that these machines will take credit, debit, and smart cards.  The win for the city is such a system can be easier and cheaper to maintain.

Another result is more revenue for the city, since it ends the ability for motorists to use a parking meter with some time remaining.

Categories: Downtown


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6 Comments so far

  1. ScooterJ on October 20, 2007 9:59 am

    I wonder though if this wouldn’t create a hidden cost in that parking patrol officers will have to peer in the window of each and every car to look for the ticket and read that print rather than simply driving down the road looking for meters with red flags up?

  2. DaveKCMO on October 20, 2007 3:22 pm

    seems like they already have a vendor in mind given how precise the requirements are…

  3. mainstream on October 20, 2007 5:50 pm

    I’ve seen those somewhere and can’t remember. But its a better idea than the parking meter. I think you place a ticket on your dash after paying the machine.

  4. Larry T on October 22, 2007 7:48 pm

    Just came back the Pittsburg PA and they had the same type system but it was for all day parking not just an hour or so. Looks like it will be a walking beat so they can save on gas so they can check inside the cars.

  5. kcguy on October 24, 2007 10:43 am

    Always, always, always be suspicious when a policy solution has a specific technology in mind. There is always a private interest that is unfairly pushing for and capitalizing on public policy (e.g., the catalytic converter by GM that is mandated for vehicles is not the only nor most efficient solution to the problem it is supposed to solve, but it does make GM, the patent holder, very rich.)

    I however will miss the altruism of being able to leave time on the meter for others, or having time remaining for me. Is anyone asking how much this feature of the current system is worth to us culturally?

  6. Joe Medley on October 24, 2007 8:39 pm

    “parking patrol officers will have to peer in the window of each and every car to look for the ticket and read that print rather than simply driving down the road looking for meters with red flags”

    Presumably, the receipt would have to be on the dash board under the outer corner of the wind shield. There’s no reason why the receipt couldn’t be easier to read than meter flag.

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