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PT BLOG Of course,Mark is right, as usu-


al in virtually everything dealing with politicians.After all, didn’t Congress- man Barney Frank push for more lib- eral loan practices and then blame the very same banks that instituted those practices and brought about the cur- rent recession? Sigh ...


Now it Goes Into Effect (PostedMarch 11) The Big Apple voted a few


months ago (remember?) to give a five-minute grace period on parking meters. That is, if a meter goes into violation, then the enforcement offi- cer must wait five minutes before writing the citation. Now, NewYork officials are putting this into effect, and officers are being trained on how to do it. Unfortunately, the Associated Press “journalist” who wrote a short


report about the training didn’t ask just how the enforcement officers are sup- posed to handle this. Let’s speculate: The officer sees a meter and


notes that it has just a few minutes left – so he/she does what?Waits until it clicks to “violation” and then starts a stopwatch? Five minutes later he writes a ticket. Hmmmmm ... Or the officer sees ameter in vio-


lation. How does he/she know when it went into violation? To be safe, the officer must wait at least five minutes from the moment he/she sees the meter until the ticket is written, right? OK, how about this scenario:The


officerwrites the citation and the vehi- cle owner walks up. The owner says, “Hey, you can’t write that, the meter just turned to red.” The officer says, “No, I have been standing here for five minutes, and I know it didn’t just turned to red.” He said vs. she said. How about another problem. If


the officer must witness the five min- utes, what’s happening during that time. Is he/she standing there observ- ing the car andmeter?Does he/she go away and tend to other business and then return five minutes later? As correspondentMark says:This


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have the ability to simply give people an extra fiveminutes. Buy an hour, get 65minutes.How’s that for a solution? The problem is that it just moves


the goal posts. The “gotcha” ticket – that one given a split second after the meter goes red – is still there, even though the extra time is on the meter. Once again, politicians trying to


make everyone happy.


Parking Operators, Here’s aWay to Increase Revenue (PostedMarch 11) A shopping mall in Queens went


to the local print shop and ran off a number of “No Parking” signs and hung them on parking meters outside the entrance to its parking lot. They looked verymuch like the ones provid- ed by theNewYork PoliceDepartment. The justification is classic: “We


got the signs from the NYPD years ago when we needed to block off the parking to facilitate traffic flow, so


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