The City of Boston is preparing to install new high-tech parking meters that will not only accept bills and plastic, issue receipts, operate in five languages, and thwart vandals, but boost revenues by eliminating the ability to piggyback on someone else's parking time.So, city officials are touting "the wave of the future" by offering high-tech parking meters...that print out paper tickets? Aren't we supposed to be moving away from paper? Isn't there a way for them to tag cars electronically?
http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2006/01/05/
high_tech_meters_will_end_freebies/
This means you have to walk up to a meter, figure out how long you're going to be there, pay for it, wait for your paper ticket, walk back to your car, put the ticket on the dashboard. Then, if you want to add money, you have to repeat the whole process.
The fuuuture, Conan? Dropping change in the meter works just fine.
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Are those new meters f---ing with me? I think they are....
The parking meters in Concord are something ridiculous like 10¢ an hour, "for your convenience." Granted, there's a lot more parking out here in the 'burbs, but that's a nice concept isn't it? I can't remember the last time anything in Boston was convenient.
I think the worst part of this story is the fact that you can't piggyback on someone else's fare. I think that's just plain ridiculous.
Damn, what am I going to do with all those 'slugs' I have?!
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