Definition of parking meter
: a coin-operated device which registers the purchase of parking time for a motor vehicle
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The sidewalk is narrow and cluttered—with humans on foot, trees, parking meters, and those dang scooters strewn about.
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In addition to having the potential to supplant FasTrak bridge toll devices, automatically connect to parking meters and run personalized messages, businesses could use them to advertise.
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The Los Angeles proposal would require that the scooters and bicycles be parked in the outer edge of the sidewalk and locked to something, such as a bike rack or a parking meter.
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The city cycles about $3 billion a year through Wells Fargo — all the revenue the city receives, even from parking meters.
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Governments have to watch out for contracts that could hamper flexibility, the way the Chicago parking meter lease hurts the city’s ability to say, create a bike lane where parking is now.
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More changes to parking meters, after testing higher prices in the Seaport and Back Bay?
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Spots along the parkways would be marked with numbers on the pavement, rather than ugly parking meters or posts.
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The mayor had already reserved $12 million in a previous capital plan, and the city set aside another $30 million from a parking meter fund when the mayor announced plans for the bridge restoration during his inaugural address in January.
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First Known Use of parking meter
1935
PARKING METER Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of parking meter for English Language Learners
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: a machine near a parking place on the side of a road that you put coins into in order to legally park there
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