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so the council can make money in the context of making people use pupil transport yes u must live in great place or village

Its like when you have bay parking at the side of the road
And theres a little machine
And you pay for how much time you want
And common ones for proper car parks are have a few dotted around and you get a ticket and then once your done it tells you how long youve been there except you dont display them you use them to get out

But i think the METER is the roadside pay&display.

You put the money in and park your car there
And theres a timer on it
And it gives you a certain amount of time
And once its up if your not at the car a traffic warden appears

Did it have a timer?

omg… do you live in Valhalla… or Sangrala?? What a sweet woman you are! wow… a place without parking meters. In California, you can barely do your banking without having to feed the meter. Going to San Francicso… fagedaboutit!!! Paid parking is the norm now dear… the munipalities (sp?) will do anything for income… they not only get the meter money… but the ticket will cost you 10 times the amount of you don’t pay it!!!
I agree though.. it does seem kinda silly to PAY to park on the STREET!!!
Bright blessing ~ Rich

a parking meter, ostensibly is a miniature rental of a parking spot. They are only used, really, where there are many people fighting for spots, so they can give out tickets to people who just park their car there for too many hours.

Sort of a collaboration between capitalism and government.

If it didnt it was probably pay and display

1) Put money in for how long you want
2) get ticket
3) display it in car windscreen

It has a “valid until” time on it and it does what it says

In Luton we don’t have them but I have seen them in London, but everyone uses the tube there really

You actually stole a parking space
Parking meters = bad

I don’t know how newspaper machines work we don’t have them in England

newspaper machines are easy…at least where i’m from you insert the money then u just pull the thing down and take a news paper and close it…..and if your fast you can get it for free

Lol we just go newsagents

In a village you won’t find one as there isn’t a need for parking, whilst in a city where you have thousands of cars, these little devils are built so 1) only people with money or a loss of common sense or laziness can park in a nearby spot 2) force everyone to race for the few free parking spaces and 3) the council can make money oh and forgot 4 4) So we can continuing the hating of traffic wardens everywhere across the world.

Luton doesn’t have them because they’d just get smashed in, lol.

yea what we ussaly do is just go to the 7-11 to get the newspaper or some other gas station/convience store

Lol very true
And theres plenty of parking space

That too, i’m in Milton Keynes and my boss lives in Luton.

Hehehe

We have loads of car parks init
And not enough double yellow lines, lol

I’ve just got loads of bloodly roundabouts.

there arent parking meters where i live either but you go to the atl which is bout 2 hours away and there thousands of em but I have no clue how to use em

you cant be serious??? LOL… I HATE parking meters!! If anyone has seen Cool Hand Luke with Paul Newman….. you will remember his episode with parking meters!

Indeed… a very great film… “shakin’ ‘em here boss”!
~Richard

im completly serious. i live in a town that has slightly over 1,000 people

I live in a town that has almost 200,000 people

Milton keynes has 184,506, how do they know? and Luton 184,900. Dammit, you beat us by 394 people!

welll lets see…i have 1,185. thats just crazy. how can you stand to live in a place with that many people? I couldnt survive