On December 8, 2022, a retiree parking in Toulouse was fined before she could even pay for her parking ticket. The town hall canceled his report.
The automatic plate recognition system for paid parking has, as it were, worked a little too well. Indeed, Anne-Marie, retired, suffered an injustice. After parking in the Pink City on December 8, 2022, she is went to pay for her parking meter. The, in revenant, she had already been verbalized. A misadventure she tells The Midi Dispatch :
“I come to Toulouse once a week to see my grandchildren or go shopping. But on December 8, 2022, when I had just parked in the street along the Royal Garden, I was fined, without my noticing it, I time to take my ticket at the parking meter. There were two people before me (…) and I had to wait to get my supporting ticket at 2:11 p.m. (…) On December 21, 2022, I received a payment notice for lack of parking at 2:08 p.m.! The three minutes correspond to the time I was at the parking meter. »
A letter to the town hall and the PV is fortunately canceled
A fine that does not please Anne-Marie:
“It is not for the 29 euros of the PV but for the principle. Enough is enough ! “My neighbor was fined in Toulouse while he was parking, when he left immediately, after changing his mind, without even getting out of his car. He paid the fine. In my village and around me, people say: “Toulouse is over, we’re not going there anymore”. In addition, there is the ZFE (low emission zone, Editor’s note)! »
The retiree fortunately sent a letter to the town hall, who canceled this PV. This without, however, apologizing or giving him an explanation. Emilion Esnault, deputy mayor of Toulouse in charge of security, sure it’s a small bug :
“The system allows 10 minutes to pay for parking. “It is” a small bug of youth, a case of computer science. This litigation will enable us to improve the system. Before the Lapi (automatic verbalization of parking), we had a lot of manual errors, with 3% of the PV cancelled. Today we remain at the same contingent. »
Remember that in Toulouse, two cars equipped with cameras read license plates vehicles parked without a valid parking ticket. They then send the fine, which ends up with the driver. Since September 2022, this system has more than doubled the number of parking fines.
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