The subscriber is unavailable: how Mosparking fools and robs drivers
- October 27, 2022
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“Now in the Russian parking application you can rewind the parking start time if the motorist has not paid for it in time.” For almost a decade, car
“Now in the Russian parking application you can rewind the parking start time if the motorist has not paid for it in time.” For almost a decade, car owners in Moscow have been waiting for a happy event and the victory of common sense – the opening of this option in the Mosparking application. And so we waited. And the journalist of the AvtoVzglyad portal tested what it is like to try to change the parking start time. And I found out that the chance of a fine as a gift is greater than ever.
The morning didn’t start with coffee. An attempt to pay in the “Parking of Russia” application, according to tradition, failed due to the alleged lack of communication with the network. Even in the absence of a VPN, motorists in Moscow regularly encounter this problem. But what to do when you arrive in the city center, they are already waiting for you and there is absolutely nowhere to rearrange the car outside the coverage area of the insidious application?
Of course, you leave the car at the place of “lack of communication” and continue with your business in full confidence that the network will be “found” on your return, and you can rest peacefully, as promised by the officials of the transport department , you can change the parking start time and pay with the prescribed amount. But it wasn’t there. It turns out that the parking start time can only be changed if it is not completed earlier than planned. And nothing else.
That is, if, like the author of these rules, you could not pay the start of parking on time (even through no fault of your own), then you discovered that the session you proposed had started and paid for it, and then discovered that it started in the wrong place, where your car is parked (that’s exactly what happened to me – it’s a royal flush, yes), then there’s almost no chance of avoiding a fine. Or you have to wait an hour for a new parking session, pay for it in full and then start again trying to change the parking start time – that is, pay for this extra hour you lost, plus all the time you already have paid earlier at the wrong parking address.
Surely your brain is already boiling from trying to figure out all the nuances of this exciting quest dubbed “a handy option for changing parking payment start time.” And we are still not talking about how to return your money for paying for parking at the address set incorrectly by the application …
And here’s what else is surprising in this story. According to the AMPP, the parking duration in July 2020 was almost 55 minutes, and in some places – up to 40 minutes. According to a SuperJob survey, in September 2021, about 36% of motorists spent less than an hour in the parking lot, 37% – from one to three hours. As a rule, in order not to be fined, people choose the parking time in advance by a margin – a whole hour, an hour and a half or a full two, and so on, and then complete the parking earlier than planned.
And Mosparking, which has this information, is one hundred percent aware of it. Therefore, the question of why it is impossible to change the start time of parking if it is completed earlier than planned is not worth it. This is done specifically to monetize conscientious citizens paying for parking. Well, not to increase parking sales!
– And you can earn a lot here, because in such cases, both the GKU “AMPP” and the district or city judge take a formal position. Such as, the payment did not take place within 5 minutes from the time of the first photo fixation, which means that he is guilty, and interruptions with the network or geolocation, application malfunctions or the absence of parking meters do not disturb anyone, lawyer Mikhail Nikitin explained to the AvtoVzglyad -portal.
By the way, Mosparking responded to this sentimental story without empathy by default: write to the transport portal, we’re sorry. We are sorry that you are now almost guaranteed to owe us five thousand rubles just because our application failed again, but we do not want to help you.
And this approach, and all these incredible problems with challenging parking tickets, haven’t changed in nearly a decade. Instead of productive work, creativity, some interesting activities, from time to time, from year to year people are forced to persevere and humiliate themselves with meaningless explanations with this clumsy service. And nothing changes…
Photo avtovzglyad.ru
Photo avtovzglyad.ru
The morning didn’t start with coffee. An attempt to pay in the “Parking of Russia” application, according to tradition, failed due to the alleged lack of communication with the network. Even in the absence of a VPN, motorists in Moscow regularly encounter this problem. But what to do when you arrive in the city center, they are already waiting for you and there is absolutely nowhere to rearrange the car outside the coverage area of the insidious application?
Of course, you leave the car at the place of “lack of communication” and continue with your business in full confidence that the network will be “found” on your return, and you can rest peacefully, as promised by the officials of the transport department , you can change the parking start time and pay with the prescribed amount. But it wasn’t there. It turns out that the parking start time can only be changed if it is not completed earlier than planned. And nothing else.
That is, if, like the author of these rules, you could not pay the start of parking on time (even through no fault of your own), then you discovered that the session you proposed had started and paid for it, and then discovered that it started in the wrong place, where your car is parked (that’s exactly what happened to me – it’s a royal flush, yes), then there’s almost no chance of avoiding a fine. Or you have to wait an hour for a new parking session, pay for it in full and then start again trying to change the parking start time – that is, pay for this extra hour you lost, plus all the time you already have paid earlier at the wrong parking address.
Surely your brain is already boiling from trying to figure out all the nuances of this exciting quest dubbed “a handy option for changing parking payment start time.” And we are still not talking about how to return your money for paying for parking at the address set incorrectly by the application …
And here’s what else is surprising in this story. According to the AMPP, the parking duration in July 2020 was almost 55 minutes, and in some places – up to 40 minutes. According to a SuperJob survey, in September 2021, about 36% of motorists spent less than an hour in the parking lot, 37% – from one to three hours. As a rule, in order not to be fined, people choose the parking time in advance by a margin – a whole hour, an hour and a half or a full two, and so on, and then complete the parking earlier than planned.
And Mosparking, which has this information, is one hundred percent aware of it. Therefore, the question of why it is impossible to change the start time of parking if it is completed earlier than planned is not worth it. This is done specifically to monetize conscientious citizens paying for parking. Well, not to increase parking sales!
– And you can earn a lot here, because in such cases, both the GKU “AMPP” and the district or city judge take a formal position. Such as, the payment did not take place within 5 minutes from the time of the first photo fixation, which means that he is guilty, and interruptions with the network or geolocation, application malfunctions or the absence of parking meters do not disturb anyone, lawyer Mikhail Nikitin explained to the AvtoVzglyad -portal.
By the way, Mosparking responded to this sentimental story without empathy by default: write to the transport portal, we’re sorry. We are sorry that you are now almost guaranteed to owe us five thousand rubles just because our application failed again, but we do not want to help you.
And this approach, and all these incredible problems with challenging parking tickets, haven’t changed in nearly a decade. Instead of productive work, creativity, some interesting activities, from time to time, from year to year people are forced to persevere and humiliate themselves with meaningless explanations with this clumsy service. And nothing changes…
Source: Avto Vzglyad
I’m Sandra Torres, a passionate journalist and content creator. My specialty lies in covering the latest gadgets, trends and tech news for Div Bracket. With over 5 years of experience as a professional writer, I have built up an impressive portfolio of published works that showcase my expertise in this field.
