Tula Bula wrote:
You're just not getting the fact that the bottom line is YOU and the choices YOU make.
If you and your co-workers all need to pump meters throughout the day, why not develop a system among you in which you all take turns going down to pay each other's meters? That way no one has to leave his/her desk every single day. For instance, your turn is on Monday. You collect coins from co-workers A, B, C, and D and go down and pay everyone's meters. On Tuesday, co-worker A will collect and run down to pay, etc.
Do you know how many tickets are written for a revenue of 192 million? Let's say only 50 million is ticket writing revenue - That is almost two
million tickets. There are only 1.5 million people that live in the city. They are writing one ticket for every man, woman and child in the city.
That is funny, over the last couple of days, I have thought about starting a business that would man meters for workers. I am sure people would just be
falling over to pay a stranger to man their meters. I am sure I would have to be bonded, all types of contracts and insurance, liabilities. However, with the
PPA it would be a money losing process. I would have to have as many meter payers as they have ticket writers to keep up. I would pay out all my fees in
ticket writing.
The other idea you mentioned could possibly work, if we all parked in the same spots from day-to-day. No one can really predict where they will be parking and
so it would be tough to account for all the cars (four people) in my group and since we all come in at different times, we can't form a union. As I
mentioned, the law makers are looking into it, citizens are upset, my company has done something. They offer almost free parking but there is a six year
wait.
