CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cleveland could soon deploy cameras — devices long banned for catching speeders and red-light runners — to crack down on illegal parking, paired with sharply higher fines for violators.
City Hall says the tougher approach is meant to smooth traffic flow downtown and make short-term parking easier to find.
There’s simply been too much double-parking clogging traffic, stopping in bus lanes disrupting bus service, and overstaying limits in short-term parking spaces, Matthew Moss, senior strategist for thriving communities for the city’s Planning Department, said during a recent Planning Commission meeting…