Talk:Parking meter

possible addition to security issues

Maybe it would be appropriate to add here an information about Muzzy. As far as I know, it's the only monster who feeds on clocks and parking meters. Thanx.

--Yuriy Lapitskiy 16:31, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Parking meter vs. Pay and display machine

Can these two pages be merged? Or should we consider the later machines as an evolution of the first. This way, parking meter stands for the old style Duncan individual meters (one for each space or a double one for each pair of spaces, which is still the same: indivudal) and Pay and display machines for the colective meter, which serve a ticket for display on the dashboard.

The two names are perfect for both generations of these machines, but for historical reasons, in some countries, even in those where the individual meters have been fully replaced by the colective pay & display systems, they are still named after the meter, like in Portugal: parcómetros.

If both the page exists, this leaves us with the problem of where to write all the vandalism, theft considerations that have allready been writen future considerations about usage, enforcement, management, collection, operation, the industry, the techonlogy, etc...

I mean, I would really like to do so.

Andrezero 01:13, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What about Disc Machines? In Ireland this is called a (Parking) Disc Machine

xyzzer 2006-06-12 00:34 GMT

removed examples of security issues

There were 3 paragraphs adding 3 more vandalism and theft examples. It was 3 too many, one is enough.

These were the deleted examples:

In May 2004, police in the town of Wausau, Wisconsin reported that thieves had stolen about 38 meters. It was reported that the meters would take nearly $25,000(USD) to replace, along with associated vandalism.

In the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke, an incident of attempted parking meter theft is what lands Paul Newman's character behind bars. Soon after the film ran, many municipalities that used parking meters employed countermeasures, such as sheathing the meter pole in a freely rotating steel pipe to protect it from a pipe-cutting tool.

The St. Joseph Hospital campus in Downtown Houston experienced parking meter theft where vandals would decapitate several Duncan 10-hour parking meters for loose change -- primarily from the homeless after the City of Houston amended the current parking ordinance to include Saturday-enforced parking from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Completed the existant paragraph with the brief enumeration of these various types of mutilation.

Andrezero 17:26, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Help: Design

Wanted to write down a paragraph about the vintage models, namely old Art Deco's & the 60's pop styled models...

Security needs and technology advances led to the constant renewel of thousands, maybe millions, of parking meters around the world, making it a popular piece of memorabilia in houses and offices. One can find units and parts on sale, fully restored and complete with the original vaults and keys. The old Art Deco's & the 60's pop styled models are the most emblematic ones because they are very represenive of two key periods of design history that were extremelly influential on street furniture development.

Andrezero 18:45, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wanted to write down a paragraph about the vintage models, namely old Art Deco's & the 60's pop styled models...

Security needs and technology advances led to the constant renewel of thousands, maybe millions, of parking meters around the world, making it a popular piece of memorabilia in houses and offices. One can find units and parts on sale, fully restored and complete with the original vaults and keys. The old Art Deco's & the 60's pop styled models are the most emblematic ones because they are very represenive of two key periods of design history that were extremelly influential on street furniture development.

Andrezero 18:45, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Economics of parking meters

I'm confused about the economics of parking meters; they seem like a form of regressive taxation. It seems like you're just punishing people for doing business in your commerical areas, which would be counterproductive. What good behaviors do parking meters encourage? Are there any good economic analyses of revenue lost from discouraging consumers? -- Creidieki 13:39, 8 July 2006 (UTC)