By June Watanabe
Tuesday, January 7, 1997
Q: Municipal parking lots on weekends and holidays are supposed to be monitored 24 hours, but I see vehicles all the time with expired meters and no citations. Why aren't the meters fed, especially in Kaimuki, around Victoria Inn, the post office, etc., as well as the downtown area, near Central Intermediate and St. Andrew's Priory? The city could make a whole lot more money if the violators were cited! Lack of personnel cuts parking meter citations
You have a good point, conceded a city Department of Transportation official.
But it's a matter of limited manpower and choosing to use them during peak times of usage and in the areas of heavy usage, he said.
That means 7:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m., Monday-Friday. People do work the night shifts, however, and certain meters are supposed to be fed 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
"We try to enforce (the meter regulations) and the revenue picture is directly affected," the official said. "But the primary purpose of the parking meters is to provide turnover in public parking. That's a key policy point and that governs and drives everything."
As for parking citations, a sore point with city officials is that they may have to enforce the rules, but fines collected end up in state coffers.
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