they have one person delegated to certain blocks/areas. the attendant has a portable gadget in which they scan the license plate number and out prints a ticket with the time on it -- and a slot for stampling each additional hour thereafter (parking is free after 8pm). i'm pretty sure they go around the lot and have it timed to end up inspecting and stamping the ticket roughly every hour. there are not tickets piling up each 30 minutes -- if you see tons of tickets it's probably a driver who has left his car for a couple days. in which case i think this system is kinda crappy...they should really just tow those damn things but they seem to park for awhile.
you have approximately 10 or 14 days, can't recall, to head to any convenience store and pay the ticket.
i assume this is cheaper than having meters constructed, although most areas do have those as well. it is way more driver friendly as taipei is a very tightly packed area and parking lots and all sidewalks are usually filled in the daytime with workers who aren't able to run out every hour to throw in a couple quarters. parking structures are not that common, most of those are constructed for housing or big shopping centers. this system makes more sense and quite nice, to have a couple people doing this service of clocking you rather than have buildings worth of employees running out every hour to meters.
as mentioned before, might be a little too friendly at times
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they have one person delegated to certain blocks/areas. the attendant has a portable gadget in which they scan the license plate number and out prints a ticket with the time on it -- and a slot for stampling each additional hour thereafter (parking is free after 8pm). i'm pretty sure they go around the lot and have it timed to end up inspecting and stamping the ticket roughly every hour. there are not tickets piling up each 30 minutes -- if you see tons of tickets it's probably a driver who has left his car for a couple days. in which case i think this system is kinda crappy...they should really just tow those damn things but they seem to park for awhile. you have approximately 10 or 14 days, can't recall, to head to any convenience store and pay the ticket. i assume this is cheaper than having meters constructed, although most areas do have those as well. it is way more driver friendly as taipei is a very tightly packed area and parking lots and all sidewalks are usually filled in the daytime with workers who aren't able to run out every hour to throw in a couple quarters. parking structures are not that common, most of those are constructed for housing or big shopping centers. this system makes more sense and quite nice, to have a couple people doing this service of clocking you rather than have buildings worth of employees running out every hour to meters. as mentioned before, might be a little too friendly at times