Motorcycle Parking Fee Solution?

I wrote back in December about hassles in the UK with motorcycle parking fees introduced by the Westminster Council to pay for the installation of new motorcycle parking zones. The fees, which were monitored by a permit system, were meant to be dropped after the payback period had finished. 

I suggested that perhaps the motorcyclists needed to pay for parking just like everyone else, it was the rate they should pay that was a sticking point. The permit system also looked a bit cumbersome to pay/display/police.

In Japan they seem to have come up with a solution for this. I have not seen this anywhere else, and on the surface it looks like a fairly good set-up.  

From what I can understand, you park your motorcycle in one of the bays, unhook the chain which is numbered for the bay, wrap it around part of your bike, and then pay the appropriate fee. I gather the idea of the numbered chain is to make it harder to enter the incorrect bay in the machine.

The chain also acts as the circuit connector for the fee charging system. Once it is plugged in your time starts. Don't plug it in and you get booked, go over time and likewise.

But, I can't see what fail-safe there is for some nut coming along and unplugging them all!

You can see it here.

JP

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Ingenious idea! We need something like that here in the US to park our motorcycles and bikes. Maybe by introducing a system like that, people would own more motorcycles/bikes rather than cars. Love this idea.