Reader John Paul of Prairie
Archives points out that my account of smart phone parking apps in “Parking
smartly” (Sept. 14, 2017)
was misleading.
Downtown street parking spaces are
metered in the first place to encourage turnover that makes short-term
parking available to shoppers and errand-runners. Feeding meters to stay beyond marked limits is illegal in
Springfield, as just about everywhere else.
The new smart
phone apps allow one to add time only up the maximum allowed on that
meter, not to extend one’s stay beyond it. My apologies.
This article appears in Sep 14-20, 2017.
