By Tribune-Review

Published: Thursday, January 3, 2013, 9:01 p.m.
Updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Parking discrimination

Pittsburgh's new parking meter system, requiring that license-plate numbers be entered to pay, is discriminatory against some of the population and intrusive on everyone's personal liberties.

First, about 10 percent of the population in English-speaking countries is dyslexic. If an individual gets a parking ticket for inverting or not remembering the correct letters or numbers, does that person have to go to court to have the fine removed? That individual has to take time off to attend court or pay the fine. What is wrong with paying for a parking receipt and putting it in your vehicle's window?

Second, the government, even more so, will have the ability to track your movements. That soon might be expanded to track you up to 10 p.m. It is bad enough that the government keeps tabs on your cellphone calls; to expand this to parking is even more prying into our private lives.

This is going to force more people to go to places that have parking spaces that are unregulated. If the 10 p.m. law takes effect, it will kill businesses, theater venues and nightlife Downtown and in the neighborhoods.

David Manthei

Oakland

1. Multiple Bibles: It’s OK
2. Fox sarcasm
3. Public will win
4. Faulty mindset
5. ObamaCare in action
6. Belongs in prison
7. Unions can, churches can’t?
8. Sacrament, not style
9. Bad situation made worse
10. Pay it forward
11. ‘Pippin’ a success

There are currently no comments for this story.
Subscribe today! Click here for our subscription offers.