Comments on Advance Indiana™: WTHR's Mary Milz Credits Parking Meter Revenue Increase To Privatization

It's big brother contracting with pay to playe...

2014-03-20T21:26:22.756-05:00

It's big brother contracting with pay to players...Don't trust it and don't use them...

Wasn't the City supposed to receive over 3 mil...

2014-03-20T08:45:53.542-05:00

Wasn't the City supposed to receive over 3 million each year according to the agreement? If that's correct it looks like it took the program 4 years to get there.

Parking meters make me shop in Carmel, Castleton, ...

2014-03-20T08:05:56.482-05:00

Parking meters make me shop in Carmel, Castleton, Fishers and Keystone.

The transaction interface or design is not state o...

2014-03-19T20:26:18.883-05:00

The transaction interface or design is not state of the art. It's clumsy; could be much better, more intuitive.

Shouldn't dollars collected for parking only be used for road maintenance or is that already the case? Other uses would seem to treat citizens like revenue cows rather than taxpayers.

The other issue I see is the 50 year lease. What b...

2014-03-19T19:43:14.760-05:00

The other issue I see is the 50 year lease. What business enters into a 50 year lease?? I worked for a large Multi-National Corporation. We seemed to change vendors every few years from office supplies to coffee machines.

That's exactly what I argued the city should d...

2014-03-19T19:12:38.819-05:00

That's exactly what I argued the city should do at the time. That's precisely what many other cities chose to do rather than lease the entire asset. That isn't to say there couldn't have been a role for a private vendor to install and maintain the equipment. P3 is sold to the public often as a cost-saving move when it often produces no net savings.

One overlooked issue that led to the revenue incre...

2014-03-19T18:15:19.236-05:00

One overlooked issue that led to the revenue increase was the technology increase. Now the parking enforcement staff gets an immediate message when your meter expires and your car is still there. Thus, by knowing there is an immediate violation, they respond with the ticket.

The old system required the parking enforcement staff to walk a route to find where the violators were.

The technology could have been purchased by the city and run by the city.....but something makes me think that pay-to-play may have entered the picture.

Imagine the revenue increase if the city bought the technology and eliminated the middle-man!