EL PASO, TEXAS (KFOX14/CBS4) — El Paso drivers could soon see major changes in how parking is enforced and how tickets are issued downtown and in the Cincinnati Entertainment District.
At Tuesday’s city council meeting, El Paso code enforcement Director Steve Alvarado is proposing an automated parking enforcement system that would allow the city to use “electronically controlled operating parking systems” and “implement feature technology to allow us to increase parking enforcement citywide,” he said.
If approved, the system would apply to more than 1,600 parking meters across downtown and the Cincinnati Entertainment District area. Alvarado said the city is looking at “real-time digital handheld ticket riders” that would communicate with the parking meters to verify whether a vehicle has paid…