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Originally Posted by Outdoorsman
I am not sure what the OSU Model is but...
You still pay to park. The difference is that instead of feeding a meter at each parking spot, you purchase a ticket at the kiosk and place it on the dash inside your car. The ticket is stamped with the date/time etc. so the meter readers can see it and know whether to ticket your car or not.
IMHO, this only serves to collect more money for the city. There are no parking meters with "time remaining" that might benefit the next person. At best if you have any significant time on your ticket, give it to someone that may be making a quick stop for a slice of pizza because you can't do that with kiosk system.
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The "OSU Model" is first of all, you pay a lot more to park. No longer a limit on the number of quarters, since the kiosks accept bills and credit cards.
Second, they have far too few kiosks to handle peak demand and they aren't always close to your parking spot (think rain).
Finally, when someone sticks in a credit card, it can take up to 10 minutes to get a confirmation. This not only leaves you cooling your heals, it doesn't do anything pleasant for the people lined up behind you.
Hopefully, the folks in charge of Weirs parking will be cognizant of the potential problems and not take OSU's "pay it our way or take a hike" approach. I would think that the LAST thing anybody wants is to impede access to the Weirs establishments, especially in view of all the effort and expense that has gone into renovations.