Boston may use new parking meters

Boston is thinking of using a new type of parking meter that accepts
"quarters and debit cards".

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/2608726/detail.html

No wonder people think using debit cards for meters is convenient, if
the alternative is using piles of quarters.

I have sent a message to the City of Boston Transportation Commissioner
via their web page

http://www.cityofboston.gov/transportation/

indicating my hope that any new parking meters also accept dollar coins.

Paul

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Paul Anderson
OpenVMS Engineering
Hewlett-Packard Company

Edinburgh now has solar powered parking meters that can be paid for
using a mobile phone, a credit card has to be registered, and for 20p a
text will be sent 10 minutes before the parking time expires. Billy


Paul Anderson wrote:

Boston is thinking of using a new type of parking meter that accepts
"quarters and debit cards".

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/2608726/detail.html

No wonder people think using debit cards for meters is convenient, if
the alternative is using piles of quarters.

I have sent a message to the City of Boston Transportation Commissioner
via their web page

http://www.cityofboston.gov/transportation/

indicating my hope that any new parking meters also accept dollar coins.

Paul

--
Paul Anderson
OpenVMS Engineering
Hewlett-Packard Company

Boston is thinking of using a new type of parking meter that accepts
"quarters and debit cards".

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/2608726/detail.html

No wonder people think using debit cards for meters is convenient, if
the alternative is using piles of quarters.

I have sent a message to the City of Boston Transportation Commissioner
via their web page

http://www.cityofboston.gov/transportation/

indicating my hope that any new parking meters also accept dollar coins.

Paul

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I went down to Savannah/Tybee Island, GA for a vacation the first of October.
Savannah around River Street had converted to new parking meters where they
have ONE meter in the midlle of a block, and you put your money in (accepts
paper money, and I *think* debit/credit card). It prints you out a ticket that
you put in your windshield that shows to what time your are paid up.

Tybee Island still had the normal style parking meters -- one per spot, whick I
believe only took quarters.

Robert Shaw
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http://www.mindspring.com/~robe294/o...xperiment.html

In article , Paul Anderson
wrote:

I have sent a message to the City of Boston Transportation Commissioner
via their web page

http://www.cityofboston.gov/transportation/

indicating my hope that any new parking meters also accept dollar coins.

I got a response from someone at the City of Boston saying the new
meters under consideration take only quarters and debit cards. I
responded by saying that parking meters are a perfect use for dollar
coins and that many other cities are using them.

I'll be damned if I'm going to load up on quarters or use a debit card
to pay for parking!

Paul


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They take only quarters and debit or credit cards. Although dollar
coins may
be convenient, they are not used very often.

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Paul Anderson wrote:

In article , Paul Anderson
wrote:

I have sent a message to the City of Boston Transportation Commissioner
via their web page

http://www.cityofboston.gov/transportation/

indicating my hope that any new parking meters also accept dollar coins.

I got a response from someone at the City of Boston saying the new
meters under consideration take only quarters and debit cards. I
responded by saying that parking meters are a perfect use for dollar
coins and that many other cities are using them.

I'll be damned if I'm going to load up on quarters or use a debit card
to pay for parking!

What will their rate be?

The newer automated parking machines that I have seen on my travels,
mainly in the upper midwest, generally do accept $1 coins, though.

It really does get beyond silly when something like a super
high-capacity laundromat washing machine (there is one at a coin laundry
here in Appleton) that charges $8 for a cycle (one at another local
laundry charges $6.25), payable only in quarters.

(possible course of a discussion about that that I'd love to try out someday)
Me: What not set this washer to take $1 coins?
Attendant: Nobody uses them.
Me: Did you just call me a 'nobody'?
Etc....

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Paul Anderson wrote:

In article , Paul Anderson
wrote:

I have sent a message to the City of Boston Transportation Commissioner
via their web page

http://www.cityofboston.gov/transportation/

indicating my hope that any new parking meters also accept dollar coins.

I got a response from someone at the City of Boston saying the new
meters under consideration take only quarters and debit cards. I
responded by saying that parking meters are a perfect use for dollar
coins and that many other cities are using them.

I'll be damned if I'm going to load up on quarters or use a debit card
to pay for parking!

What will their rate be?

The newer automated parking machines that I have seen on my travels,
mainly in the upper midwest, generally do accept $1 coins, though.

It really does get beyond silly when something like a super
high-capacity laundromat washing machine (there is one at a coin laundry
here in Appleton) that charges $8 for a cycle (one at another local
laundry charges $6.25), payable only in quarters.

(possible course of a discussion about that that I'd love to try out someday)
Me: What not set this washer to take $1 coins?
Attendant: Nobody uses them.
Me: Did you just call me a 'nobody'?
Etc....

Now if there were only a few parking spots available !!