Eli5: how do traffic ticketers know that your car has been in a spot on the street longer than the time limit?

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I park on the street in my city and there’s a 2 hour limit for cars without residential permits. How do they know you’ve been parked for longer than the 2 hr limit? Surely they don’t have surveillance on every street and don’t take note of every car’s whereabouts every 2 hours. Do they have some type of device that can tell how long a car has been still?

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The chalk thing is old and obsolete. At this point the parking authority have mini computers. They walk along and enter license plate numbers. The computer does the rest.

In Philadelphia once you are on a block for the times amount you must switch sides of the street or go to a different block. Can no longer just move up a spot or two if one comes available.

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