MKE Park Reviews

by KumpMD

I had a minute and 30 left on my meter from paying directly with my credit card. I added MKEPark so I could add some additional minutes and do it again if I was in a store for too long. I tried to add 30 minutes and in doing so it erased the hour and a half I already had on there and shorted me an hour and a half. I went back to check my carAnd it was flashing or I could’ve gotten a ticket. They deleted the money that I had already paid and it is not clear at all that you will lose this time when you try to add more minutes. What they essentially are doing is double charging people when they pay with cash and try to add minutes through MKEPark . It’s a complete rip off and should be a class action lawsuit. I’m going to see if I can bring this up to an attorney friend. Seems like massive fraud on a crazy high scale.

by Endzone Drama

There aren’t any zone postings on the meters nor on nearby signs. The first time I used MKEPark , I had 3 zones pop up on MKEPark . I chose the first one, paid, and ended up with a ticket. I disputed the ticket with the city showing I paid through MKEPark and they refused to overturn it. The second time I tried to use this, again not knowing the zone, I put the meter space in and the map showed that I was located in a different part of the city. My trust in MKEPark is gone.

by Audiophile79

When you're parking in a 2-hr spot, beware that you can only pay MKEPark once for that spot.

I paid 1 hr in a 2 hr spot and tried to recharge. I walked back to my car to find a $22 ticket. After confronting the meter maid, I followed the process of appeal (which involved faxing a broken fax line), but the snail mail took too much time to arrive which then gave me a late fee.

I clearly outlined this issue in the appeal process and just now received my rejection notice, 4 months later.

Clearly, MKEPark doesn't function as it should. Clearly, MKEPark doesn't communicate clearly its function.
Clearly, Milwaukee needs revenue badly.
Clearly, I am not pleased about their extortion.

by MilwaukeeTech12

The city charges such exorbitant rates that nobody has that much change in their pocket and businesses don’t want to break bills for everyone so the city buys MKEPark . Now when you find and old styled meter you have to pay $.36 in addition to the exorbitant rates. The politicians make a fortune off of the citizens who bought the roads in the first place and MKEPark developer makes millions too.

by Blublubl

I used to love MKEPark, however for the last two weeks MKEPark doesn’t recognize my payment method and asks me to add one. When I click on the link to add a payment method, the only ones available to add are ones I haven’t used yet. I’m out of options to add as I already used 5 of them and those are not available to use after you add them. PLEASE HELP!!!!! Fix the payment method access.

by Parking Violator

I just spent 20 minutes setting up a parking session. It "failed" my payment three times, then "failed" again saying I am already in a parking session at that spot. Of course this is consistent with Milwaukee's overall parking management. They make it as hard as possible to follow the rules so they can continue to collect $20 million+ in parking violation revenues every year.

by Rainrunner999

I’m always standing at a meter when Mke Park decides my password isn’t right, though every time, it is right. So then I have to find quarters. E ceding my annoying. When it works, it’s a real handy app. But I’m taking time to review while waiting for MKEPark to download, to reinstall, again.

by Billshewman

With the new version MKEPark always thinks payment failed. I’m using Apple Pay. MKEPark reports a failure with payment. So i try to pay again and then I’m told the spot is already taken (which tells me payment went thru), then I’ll check my iOS wallet and see payment did go thru, and I even get a reminder text when my time is almost expired.

But MKEPark doesn’t let me review my time because it doesn’t think I paid.

Everyone. Three times in last 4 days.

by Golfer Susan

I had to get a parking ticket, which cause me to get it set up but bye that time I couldn’t remember what parking place I was in. Hopefully the next time I will be ready to put all the information in to MKEPark .

by One-eyed Betty

I think MKEPark is great overall, but recently have been really annoyed by a glitch that prohibits me from adding a payment option. I can’t reach anyone in tech support via email or by phone. First world problems I know, but grrrr...

by Mark In Milwaukee

If you know the meter number the parking app works great to accomplish its core functionality. It should be improved to show the meter number in MKEPark by pointing to individual parking spaces on the map. Also, while 38 cents seems de minimis, its a big % increase when the meter rate is 50 cents per hour. The city should license the software and charge only enough to recover the cost.

by CSparky4752

I was attempting to pay for parking in Downtown MKE. MKEPark came up and asked for a zone. Didn’t know what was being asked for and the help button wasn’t helpful. The phone has GPS and showed where I was. Would not accept the space number without the zone. What is the zone? And why can’t it Determine the zone by that information?

Attempted to pay at two kiosks and then determined that the entire payment system was down.

by ExcelDummy

Never have I experienced the thrills of parking until I found MKEPark

by Daubertman

The Apple Pay connection is helpful.

by Mdtatr

Saves time and hassle!

by Elle Chicago

Love it! I try to always keep quarters in my car but this is really helpful when I don't

by Y-U-Turn

Earlier I could add a favorite spot from MKEPark . Now no more! I could not find an option in MKEPark (under favorites) to add another favorite spot. Please fix this ASAP!

by Wozwis

Simple to understand, easy to use. Excellent features with the real time streetcar map and bubbles showing parking by area/type. Thanks!

by Lizzaylizz

Super easy to use, really convenient, and truthfully, it keeps me from over-paying when I don't need to pay and alerts me when my time is almost up, avoiding those pesky tickets! I'd say it's a necessity for being downtown.

by Priceless1018

This is a great option when no cash is available! However, I’ve parked in many places downtown where there are “no zones available”. Maybe they should omit that, and just have the parking meter number to be displayed. Thx.

by User394729470

MKEPark no longer lets me pay with my saved credit card information. After opening a support ticket to get help, it was marked as “solved” even though nobody responded to the ticket and nothing was fixed in MKEPark . Amateur support for sure.

by Farts Smell Bad

Meters won't read cards well during the rain, leaving this as your only option, app is a joke trying to trick users into a "master pass" at several times. Then they add a surcharge for you to be inconvenienced by all this nonsense....what crap

by Frustrated In MKE

I think MKEPark is great overall, but recently have been really annoyed by a glitch that prohibits me from adding a payment option. I can’t reach anyone in tech support via email or by phone. First world problems I know, but grrrr...

by Kirty Hefner

Extremely useful...