<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by jimpop:
...It is simply much more difficult to visually monitor the parking decks, yet keeping tabs on cars momentarily parked in front of a terminal is a relatively manageable task.
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You are missing the point. If a vehicle drives up to the curb and pushes "the button", there is NOTHING TO MANAGE. It is all over. The police report would read something like " I saw this very suspicous vehicle drive up, and immediately began to call for support and then it blew up, driver and all...."
As to walking 100 feet... why should perfectly good parking spaces not be used? By the way, the Feds have allowed some (any?) cities to use these close in spaces if someone "looks" inside your vehicle as you drive in. Of course, they have no idea what is inside your packages, but they look anyways.