Definition of parking meter
: a coin-operated device which registers the purchase of parking time for a motor vehicle
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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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Our parking meter system should go the way of town hall fisticuffs.
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Feigon said that one reason Car2Go has not come to Chicago yet is because of the complexities posed by the city’s private parking meter system.
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Urban curbsides have traditionally been allocated based on real estate: parking meters in front of shops, loading zones near supermarkets, no-parking areas at warehouses, unmetered parking in residential areas, and so on.
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The model did a number of very normal human things, like feeding parking meters: And stopping at a nail salon for a manicure and pedicure.
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Portland parking meters: Free, but meters enforced in Washington Park, the Oregon Zoo and Willamette Park.
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But the city doesn’t have any large assets left to sell, such as the utility or the parking meters, as Ballard did, to gather $731 million to improve the streets' poor condition rating.
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Last summer, the city installed demonstration parking meters in the River Market as a response to recommendations in a 2016 parking audit.
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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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