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Graham

On 2017-08-26 3:03 PM, wrote:
> On Saturday, August 26, 2017 at 3:37:28 PM UTC-5, graham wrote:
>>
>> As Alberta doesn't have front number plates, you must drive into the
>> spot in any city owned lot, otherwise they ticket you.
>>
>>
> We don't have front license plates here either, but it makes no
> difference if you pull in or back in as long as you are between
> the lines. Is someone driving around all the time checking plates?
>
We don't have parking meters any more so if you park in pay areas on the
street, you either pay at a machine - keying in the zone # and your car
#, or with a cellphone account. Same in the city owned lots.
They have cars mounted with cameras that drive by and automatically send
your car# to the parking computer which checks to see if you've paid and
if you haven't, or have run past your time, it automatically sends you a
parking ticket. So if you have backed into the space in the lot, the
camera can't record your info and you get ticketed.
It's a system developed in Calgary and it replaces the old parking
meters that were constantly being broken into by criminals.