Solar Parking - Ithaca, NY
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ripraff
N 42° 26.366 W 076° 29.752
18T E 376970 N 4699651
The parking meters have been replaced with devices to charge parking that are powered with solar panels.
Waymark Code: WMQ5BH
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 12/23/2015
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"The City of Ithaca is gradually rolling out new parking paystations around downtown, replacing parking meters in stages. The new paystations offer lots of advantages, for the City and for parkers, but the disadvantages are getting attention...The unfortunate result is that people on one side of the street will have to cross to the paystation for now -- and since the solar-powered units are placed for maximum sun exposure, the location varies from block to block. One downtown merchant says, "I keep seeing confused people jaywalking to dart across to pay for their parking...Ithaca's parking patrol vehicles (as well as some police vehicles) are now equipped with license plate scanners, which will automatically see who's parked on a block as the vehicle goes by. A license plate that doesn't match one that has paid for parking, or whose parking has expired, will be flagged -- and the officer can stop and write a ticket...drivers can skip the paystations and use the Parkmobile app on a smartphone, "