03/27/18
Cities across America are installing free smart parking meters equipped with license plate readers (LPR).
A company called Municipal Parking Service (MPS) has been installing free camera-equipped parking meters in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Florida and Canada.
Are MPS’s parking meters really free?
The answer is yes, sort of.
(license plate reader begins at 2:30)
According to an article in the Lowell Sun, it appears MPS offers cities a number of smart parking meters for a ‘free’ pilot program and then charges them if they decide to use their system.
Why would MPS offer cities free smart parking meters?
According to MPS’s video, the [third] reason cities should use their meters, is so motorists can pay a ‘small fee’ instead of a larger parking fine if they over-stayed a parking meters time limit.
And why would they do that you ask?
Because cities can double their existing revenue by using MPS’s parking meters.
MPS also charges motorists a 15 cent fee to use their ‘Sentry Mobile Consumer’ app to pay for parking.
At approximately 4:00 minutes into the above video, MPS reveals that their ‘Sentry’ parking meters can be used to record criminals or suspicious people. Asking people, and I quote, “wouldn’t it be nice to have a VIRTUAL POLICE OFFICER every forty feet on your sidewalks?”
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