Passing the parking ticket. Right or wrong?
I have a little ethical question.See those parking meters? What do you do if you see someone parking or waiting to take your space and you have a ticket with lots of time left on it? Is it unethical to the City to hand the person the ticket and let them use the remaining minutes.
In the past, this was how it worked with actual parking meters. The person parking after you got to use your unused minutes. But what about passing the ticket? Is this right or wrong and have you done it or received a ticket from someone?
posted by Tom Falco at 9:05 AM
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there is nothing wrong with it. if i pay for 2 hours and im only there for one, i have still paid for that spot for an additional hour, if i want to gift that to someone else there is no legal or moral issue. its my time, i paid for it, and i can park my car or let someone else park there if i choose.
One of the reasons that this system is so popular with cities is that it does force more people to buy time instead of using time left from a previous car. The tickets are NOT legally transferable, but how can that be enforced?
Another 'advantage' of this system is that if the nearest dispenser is broken, you have to go to the next one; you MUST have a ticket in order to park on the street. With the old meter-per-space system, a broken meter meant free parking.
I'm not commenting on the morality of passing on your ticket; merely the legality of it, and the effect on parking revenues. I ride a bicycle around town, so it matters not to me.
Pass it on.
1. Good karma
2. It's a nice gesture
3. A bit of sticking it to "the man"
I have always been mad about the metered parking. First they tried that stupid card system that failed. Then, just when we got a "parking fairy", they changed the meters so that the merchants couldn't save us from tickets. Each time they change the meters, its costs lots of money which is paid by our tax dollars. We have even received a ticket when our parking receipt was current and in the window, along with all the other ones that gather up there. That only took one day of work and a trip to downtown to resolve. And have you ever seen people that enjoy their jobs as much as the meter readers? They work as if they make a percentage.
I think before we question the morality of giving away the time that we purchased, we should question the morality of the parking authority.
The abandonment of "regular" parking meters is prima facie evidence that the Miami Parking Authority is a) willfully ignorant of user friendly service or b) corrupt.
Consider this...Out of town visitors are confused by the system, you can't add coins if you decide to stay longer before the time runs out, you can get a ticket (and some have) while you are walking back and forth from the payment station, the pay stations often malfunction and are diffult to read in the dark...and on and on.
Willful incompetence or corruption?
Have you ever noticed people staring at that machine wondering what to do as if they were getting ready to take their LSATs. At night it is particularly bad because the lighting is so poor, then you might have to take out your glasses to figure out which way the credit card goes in, quarters are jammed into the machine, it doesn't take your dollar unless it is a brand new crisp bill - hell yeah I always give my ticket to someone; sometimes I stand there and wait to give it to someone.
With the old system if you were in a restaurant or getting slow service in the Grove (like that never happens) you could give someone a quarter and have them put it in the parking meter - not any more - now you have to leave the restaurant or store, go to your parking station sometimes half a block away, unlock your car and put the new ticket on your dash. And what about people with convertibles or motorcycles, their tickets are sometimes ripped off or blown away. If a parking station is not working why do I have to walk another half a block to one that is working. It is their job to keep them operating.
Something is very rotten at the Miami Parking Authority for this system to have been put into place. No amount of smug reassurances from its director, one Art Noriega, can justify the day-to-day hassles these machine impose upon the public. I think "just the facts m'am" may be on to something. This system smells like corruption.
I'm all for passing the ticket. But in defense of the "Boxes," I love that they accept credit and dollars because, sometimes I'm a total flake and forget quarters.
I have seen it many times that when a parking station is not working and you are walking down the street to find another one, the meter person is writing you a ticket; it happened the other night but fortunately the husband left his wife and baby standing by the car but the meter person walked up and started writing a ticket not even looking to see if someone was at the parking station and never bothered to see if the station was working.
Yeah, Im sure its a huge conspiracy... Gimme a break. Its a combination of 2 simple concepts - "adaption" and "technology". I agree with Local above. Its awesome that the new meters take cash and credit. Plus, you can score a free ticket from someone who is leaving. The only benefit to the government is that they essentially can get more money per hour based on people overbuying and not passing it on. I guess the choice is yours...
Had "blind mind" actually read the earlier posts, he/she might have noted that the word used was corruption, not conspiracy. Another problem with the system is that the minimum charge is a dollar. Forget putting in a quarter to nip in to pick up yuour laundry.
Well if you are using change, you can use a nickel as minimum charge. A dollar may be minimum for credit card payment.
I usually put a nickel in first because every other machine is broken and this way I only lose a nickle if that particular machine is broken.
5 & 10 - youre implying that the corrupt government has launched some sort of parking conspiracy with these machines, plain and simple. Its about as absurd as the notion that "Out of town visitors are confused by the system". First off, these things are all over the country, and secondly, if anyone is confused on how to operate a simple machine its the people that live here.
They are a whole lot easier than the coral gables machines which look like euro toys. The "buttons" are actually pictures (as in, there is no texture or physical cue). You must push the picture. Now THOSE are trouble.
i dont even think of oit as sticking it to the man - they city got their money for that "maximum time", they will get plenty more. it's totally fair and square :)
Absolutely, a fellow-citizen helping hand vs the government can only be a good thing.
More power to you
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