Transportation
The Best Parking App We've Ever Seen
How risky is it to run inside for that cup of coffee without feeding the meter? SpotAgent will figure that out for you.
There’s a coffee shop down the street from Shea Frederick’s house in the Hampden neighborhood of Baltimore that routinely lures morning commuters into becoming scofflaws. The parking meters out front require payment from 8 in the morning until 8 at night. But, of course, it only takes a few minutes on the way to work to run in and grab a cup of coffee, right?
The city’s parking citation rolls – now updated daily and published online in impressive detail – confirm that this gamble doesn’t work out for many people. “I noticed in the data,” Frederick says, “that there’s actually a spike right around 8 to 8:30 when the meter maids would just go crazy on that little spot in front of that coffee shop.”