Update: A spokeswoman for the parking company said the broken boxes were repaired and that ticketing was to resume at 5 p.m. after a day-long moratorium. But asked about that timetable for reviving enforcement, city Revenue Department spokesman Ed Walsh replied, “Ticketing will resume as soon as we have substantiated that all of the equipment is operational.” In the latest technological snafu to plague Chicago’s troubled parking meter system, many of the newly-installed pay-and-display boxes in the downtown area were not working properly today, Clout Street reports . The private company that earlier this year assumed operations of the city’s 36,000 paid street parking spots recently promised to speed up installation of pay-and-display boxes after suffering widespread problems with coin parking meters. The new boxes, roughly one per block, take credit cards in addition to cash, eliminating the need to lug around a bagful of quarters. But many of the new pay boxes—including those near City Hall—were not working today. Some motorists who parked there paid for their spots, but the boxes would not print the receipts that are supposed to be displayed on the dashboards of vehicles. Other boxes displayed an error message instructing parkers to “please pay at another station.” Police officers told drivers they had received orders not to issue any parking tickets today due to “issues” with the parking meters.
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Tickets may resume after meter breakdown
