After several years of laxness due to the pandemic and budget cuts, the Portland Bureau of Transportation will ramp up parking and vehicle registration enforcement starting Monday.
Why it matters: The move aims to recoup millions in losses for the struggling agency and crack down on Portlanders who've gotten comfortable not paying the meter or registering their car.
State of park: PBOT got the OK from City Council to hire 22 new enforcement officers last spring, bringing the squad's total up to 81 — more than they had before 2020.
Those officers will focus primarily on expired tags, missing plates, wrong-way parking and vehicles blocking intersections.
