It’s ridiculous because there are many bigger issues in our city that our tax payer money should be going towards. The Meter workers for instance have this job, what will happen to the security of their jobs? This is simply a ploy to make sure that every person who is a minute late to their meter will pay a fine. Just another way for the city to make money off of students struggling to pay their parking fees already and the average windsorite simply stopping into a store. It’s not right. Soon enough there will be cameras on every corner and then should we say that if we aren’t doing anything illegal we shouldn’t have anything to worry about? This is a very scary taste of the future

I am simply concerned for the workers whos jobs are now at risk and the average person who will be paying petty fines for being minutes late to their meter. Big brother money grab. Take advantage of the average tax paying citizen why don’t ya!

Ash Lynn: There’s soooo many flaws with your comment. Let’s begin:

Any tax money being put towards this technology is to able to actual recover more of the fines that people are getting out of due to disputes. In the end, if the city is able to actual collect on more of the fines, it’s a net gain for the city.

Oh, now we’re all concerned about the jobs of meter maids? That’s funny. That aside, this is only making their job more secure. The new photo tools will enable the city to actual collect more of the fines that they dish out. This brings in more money to the city (see above). In turn, the jobs of meter maids will be all the more secure. Of course their jobs wouldn’t even be required in the first place if everyone just followed the simple rules.

Psst, lots of people are struggling. I, for one, was a student too at one time. How many parking tickets or fines did I ever get in Windsor? Zero. How? I parked legally. It’s that simple. Or I walked. Or took the bus. Or biked. Just because you’re too lazy to park legally is not an excuse. If anything, if someone is struggling so much, wouldn’t it make more sense to watch where you park so that you do not incur a costly fine? Perhaps it’s such boneheaded behaviour that at least partially explains why someone is “struggling”. Or if they can afford to just park wherever they want, ticket be damned, perhaps they are not in fact struggling?

You can be a few minutes late to your meter. There’s a grace period built into the meters.

Big brother money grab? Hardly. More like a stupidity tax. Some folks are all too happy to pay it. Fine with me. Less tax I actually have to pay. And to those that park illlegally but waste time trying to fight them and taking photos and what not. Go ahead. You too are paying a stupitidy tax. Even if you “win”, you still wasted tons of time.