parking meters

     

A parking meter is a evice used to collect money in exchange for the right to park a vehicle in a particular place for a limited amount of time. Parking meters can be used by municipalities as a tool for enforcing their integrated on-street parking policy, usually related to their traffic and mobility management policies.

Trivia about parking meters

  • In 1940 Sudbury became the first Canadian city to install these meters, eh
  • North Dakota banished these coin-eaters from their streets in the 1940s; attempts to reinstate them have failed
  • In 1935 drivers in Oklahoma City became the first to "feed" these; a nickel in the slot
  • In "Cool Hand Luke", Paul Newman is put on a chain gang for vandalizing these mechanical devices
  • In use Monday-Friday 8-6, the yellow-capped ones are 5 hours max, green 2 hours, silver 1 hour & red 30 min.
  • In "Cool Hand Luke", Paul Newman is sent to a chain gang camp as punishment for destroying these

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