Dubbo motorists have outperformed their Bathurst and Orange counterparts, with fewer parking fines issued in the city.
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Parking rangers issued 1,136 parking tickets in the Dubbo local government area in 2015/16.
The fines were worth a combined total of $140,614.
It’s much the same as the number of fines issued in 2014/15, when figures by the NSW Office of State Revenue show 1269 notices were issued with a face value of $150,309.
Meanwhile Bathurst motorists received 2,155 fines in 2015/16, totaling $271,608, and Orange had a whopping 4,354 parking infringement notices handed out.
Orange motorists were out of pocket a total of $505,735 for the year.
Dubbo’s figures have shown a definite decrease in recent years. In 2013/14 there were 2559 fines issued to the tune of $282,811.
Before that, each financial year from July 2010 to June 2013 about 2500 notices were issued.
For 2015/16 the combined populations of Bathurst and Dubbo were hit with 1063 fewer fines than Orange’s drivers, at a cost of $93,513 less.
It’s been a consistent trend in recent times: in both 2012/13 and 2013/14 Orange had more than double the number of parking infringement notices than the Bathurst LGA.
In February Orange City Council introduced mobile parking camera technology to patrol the city’s streets and parking lots.
A specialised car, fitted with a camera and computer is driven by a council ranger. As it passes cars parked in the restricted zones a photo is taken of the license plate, and the exact time, location and date are recorded on the computer. Another photo is taken after the allocated time to determine if the car has gone over the limit.
But in August the vehicle was removed from service in Orange and returned to the manufacturer amid concerns about the clarity of images it displayed.
At the time, Dubbo Regional Council, then Dubbo City Council, said they would not be introducing similar technology in Dubbo.
"New technology involves higher performance levels but like everything that technology comes at a cost," Mr Valentine said in January.
"If we were to consider it we would have to look at what the cost would be, but it's not in the forward plans to look at it."
About 1000 to 1200 vehicles per hour can be checked by the patrol cars.