In NYC the meters are supposed to get enough traffic moving around
that you can find a place to park at all.  The street cleaners while
they seem to only function to push dirt around the street, also serve
to identify vehicles that have been abandoned.  It seems that when you
steel a car you don't keep it forever, you just drive it where you
want to go, then get out and walk away (unless its a nice car then you
take it to a chop shop... i assume).  On NPR i believe in the fall
they were talking about an electric car technology startup in
California that was adapting the parking meter system as hubs for
charging your electric cars as well.

I know none of this is relevant to the original topic, i guess i am
just saying in reference to Cuyler's post that there are reasons
outside of monetary for arcane meter and street regulations.

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Cuyler Page <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Some years ago in Vernon, BC, a City administrator took time to calculate
> the real cost of the parking meter system, including wages for the meter
> readers and repairs and the whole tangible ball of wax, and realized that
> the Net Cost to the City was actually $25,000 a year rather than making any
> positive revenue.   Everyone was shocked.  The Council immediately passed a
> Bylaw to delete the system, dismissing the meter readers and removing the
> old style meters and posts.   The project of meter removal cost
> over $60,000.   All was well for a couple of years, with free parking all
> through town until a new style of digital parking meter came on the market
> and the City invested in them because they were supposed to be more cost
> effective and less prone to break-down.   The Council had since changed back
> to a more conservative old school style, and the elders all happily
> assumed that parking meters must be money makers.   They could not stand the
> socialist idea of free parking on the streets.
>
> Can't help but wonder about the power of the parking meter industry lobby.
>
>
> cp in bc
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Gabriel Orgrease
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 11:12 AM
> Subject: Re: [BP] Stone Cold Truth...or Fiction??
> On 4/27/2010 1:08 PM, Cuyler Page wrote:
>
> Parking is the new gold rush.
>
> I heard, though I have not yet encountered it for real, that in NYC the
> Mayor recently instituted a 5 minute grace on overstayed parking meters.
>
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