... is about to get worse, if that's even possible: No quarter for illegal parking from June

This may have changed since it's been a couple years since I got a parking ticket, but the cheapest one is generally well over a hundred dollars, plus you lose a couple points off your license (well, technically, you gain two points, but still...).

I predict that turning it over to third party metermaids is going to result in some beat up metermaids, at least in the short run.