More and more cities are equipping themselves with a PV sulphator to fine unpaid parking.
The municipality of Villeurbanne (Rhône) has just communicated an impressive report: more than 5,000 cars are checked every day and the error rate is said to be less than 1%.
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PV sulphators are these intelligent vehicles capable of drawing up fines by the shovel. They drive around, they scan your license plate and they fine you if you haven’t paid for parking. It is the real nemesis of motorists, tirelessly crisscrossing the streets of urban life with its dozen cameras installed on the roof. For motorists, it becomes impossible to escape it.
Thanks to a computerized system, it is immediately possible to know whether the motorist has paid for his parking. Enough to provoke the anger of the inhabitants: “It’s unacceptable, this car running non-stop”says a driver in the subject at the top of this article. “That means that by the time we go to the parking meter and pay, she has already stopped by to fine us”she said, admitting to having received 50 fines.
Two cars with automatic license plate reading drive daily in urban life. They check 5,000 vehicles per day, compared to 300 previously when agents scanned the tickets on the windshields. “We don’t know what to do anymore,” says a driver who pays “3 to 6 fines per month” on average. “At some point, we say to ourselves, there’s no point in getting up to go to work.
An exorbitant cost in terms of parking
More than 700 fines for unpaid parking are issued every day. Last year it cost 1,200 euros to a building tradesman contacted by TF1’s 1 p.m. who now regulates his parking: “We park and we have to pay 9 euros in the morning, 15 in the afternoon, so an exorbitant cost in terms of parking,” he notes. “This is what actually generates the PV”.
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For Villeurbanne town hall, the goal is to fight against abuse and sucker cars. If traders recognize that parking is now easier, the number of tickets also scares away some customers. They deplore the shortfall, like the restaurateur interviewed by TF1: “Before, we had a passing clientele who perhaps stopped for a few minutes, who came to consume or who came to pick up their little groceries. As a result, we no longer have that.”
The fraud rate on paid parking is 15%. Despite the formidable effectiveness of sulphators, the Villeurbanne town hall nevertheless indicates that it does not pursue a figures policy…
