The Miami Parking Authority (MPA) has changed the meter rates and by doing that, they screwed up the whole system. In their favor of course.The bad new: they raised the rates to $1.50 per hour.
The good news: after 6 pm there is one flat rate: $2.00 for four hours.
American Express is nixed and only MasterCard and Visa are accepted. But here comes the problem -- the meters have been cheating everyone.
The other night I put $2 in the meter and I got a ticket with 14 minutes on it. I went to another meter and put in $2 and I got a ticket with 12 minutes on it.
I tried a credit card and it was declined. A lady came up to the meter and told me she had the same problem, the machines kept eating her money. This all was happening in the rain, by the way, so we stood like fools in the rain trying to pay for parking.
Later that night I ran into a friend who told me that he put two dollars in the meter the other day and he got a ticket that was expired already!
The other day, two people tried the meter, the one in front of the Guess store. It didn't work so they walked to another meter, when they came back, a ticket was already on their cars! This happened to a friend and man who was there at the same time, also trying to pay for parking. Both had the same experience -- ticketed while paying for parking at a meter that was not actually near their cars because since the meter near their cars was broken, they had to traipse around town look for a working meter.
Nine times out of 10 my credit card is declined. You would think I would have $3.00 available on my Visa, according to the MPA, I don't.
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