You will no longer see agents from the Moovia company roaming the streets of Bordeaux, to check that the owners of parked cars have properly regulated their parking. Since January 1, they have been working from cars equipped with cameras that allow automated reading of license plates (LAPI) and in control rooms, where the images collected are verified. No more paperwork on your windshields: the fine (called post-parking package) will be sent by mail.
No “avalanche of fines”
By this choice, the town hall wants to protect the agents, who were victims of verbal and physical attacks, and to ensure better equity in the territory of the city. “With the car, which can be recognized but is nonetheless unmarked, officers will be able to go to all neighborhoods, even in those where they used to be badly received”, specifies Didier Jeanjean, deputy mayor in charge of nature in the city and peaceful neighborhoods. And he ensures that it is not at all to increase the number of passages to collect more tickets, but to ensure fair control in all neighborhoods. “Historically, agents pass through the center twice a day, and now cars will pass twice,” he explains. We don’t need to make more passages. I do not want this system to be used to trigger an avalanche of tickets. “
The LAPI system only deals with payment defaults on paid parking spaces: troublesome parking problems are managed by the municipal police, in conjunction with the district town halls.
Confused subscribers
At the start of the year, to take out or manage their subscription and validate their parking, beneficiaries of the residential rate must now log onto a new site: monstationnement.bordeaux.fr. The Bordeaux Ensemble group sent a letter to the mayor to point out “dysfunctions”. “In particular, some subscribers are unable to find their subscription or their Pass 52 on the new computer interface,” he wrote in a press release.
In question: a lack of legibility of the site. “1,500 people already subscribed created a new account and they found themselves on a page where all their rights had disappeared, since the software did not recognize them”, explains Didier Jeanjean. The home page has been revised and clarified, but the city’s services find themselves a little overwhelmed to deal with the 1,500 erroneous accounts in question. Apart from this lack of clarity, the system works very well, according to the town hall, and only subscribers who have been misdirected by the first version of the home page and who have received a fine will be able to claim a gesture from the municipality.
People with reduced mobility will be tolerated during the first fifteen days of January because they are obliged to report when before, the affixing of their badge was sufficient. If nothing has changed in the offer itself, the LAPI system cannot photograph the interior of the passenger compartment of vehicles, and the badge of the person with reduced mobility must therefore be presented to the services of the town hall.