Do you remember this parking meter? Ten years ago, I went down to Oamaru in the South Island of New Zealand. I was pleasantly surprised to see them. I guess they are gone and replaced by the new ones.
Singapore is very modern. An Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) system was introduced in 1998, in-vehicle units (IU) were supplied by MHI, more than 99% of the vehicles in Singapore are equipped with them. When you go past a gentry, Electronic Parking System (EPS) automatically deduct your packing fees.
Here in New Zealand, they have a modernized form of meter. But it is just a modernised version, except it accepts your credit card and eftpos.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10657642
Friday Jul 9, 2010
Photo / Martin Sykes
Serial parking meter ram-raider Alan William Hayward has gone to prison for five years but has not been ordered to pay the $415,000 bill for the damage he did.
Christchurch District Court Judge David Holderness said any reparation order would be "a quite unrealistic and futile exercise".
Hayward had three months added to his sentence for his attempt to throw the police inquiry off the trail when he was already on remand in prison, by getting an associate to carry out more ram-raids using Hayward's method of offending.
He was for sentence after pleading guilty to 40 charges: 11 thefts, 10 unlawfully taking cars, and 13 charges of intentional damage, as well as the charge of conspiring to pervert the course of justice over the ram-raids; two other charges of stealing cash; possessing tools for taking cars; and a breach of his parole conditions.
Destroying public property means money coming out of our purses. Working people pay taxes. It is the taxes that pay for public properties. Having to replace or repair them only means extra money have to be channeled and it is us who have to bear the load.
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