01/29/2026
City of Bangor, Maine - City Hall is seeing real results with smarter parking enforcement. 🚗✨
After Bangor’s summer amnesty period helped clear $9,000 of the $24,000 owed by drivers with three or more unpaid parking tickets, the city has now brought in an additional $2,500 since deploying the Barnacle this past October.
According to the city’s parking manager, the Barnacle has been used about a dozen times so far — and it’s already paid for itself. The device helped resolve 119 past-due tickets, including cases where some drivers had 20–30 unpaid citations.
What’s even more interesting? Most drivers took care of their debts before a Barnacle ever touched their windshield. Just seeing warning letters — and knowing the tool was coming — was enough to change behavior.
“The word’s out,” said Parke Clemons of PCI Municipal Services. And the early results have exceeded expectations.
With more Maine towns exploring ways to reduce scofflaw tickets and free up staff time, Bangor’s early success raises the question: Should more Maine cities adopt the Barnacle?
Either way, Bangor is proving that modern, transparent parking enforcement can work — and work fast.
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