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Subject: Parking enforcement on a roll
From: Matt Murray <mattm@optonline.net>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:21:03 -0500
Food for thought.

Matt Murray

mattm@optonline.net



Parking enforcement on a roll


By Mac Daniel, Globe Staff, 3/13/2002

The potential future of parking enforcement in Boston rolled
slowly
down Columbus Avenue last week, trolling for license plates in
the
South End's urban sea.

It's a white mini-SUV that's hard to miss, with two bright sodium
lights on the roof sitting alongside two tubelike digital
cameras,
all pointed at car-bumper-level to catch any part of a number or
letter.

It is called a vehicle-mounted LPR or license plate reader, and
transportation specialists say it could become the most
innovative
parking enforcement advancement since the seal-and-send Day-Glo
parking ticket.

...

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/072/metro/Parking_enforcement_o
n_a_roll+.shtml

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