The Observation Deck

Just noticed this on a photo I took yesterday.



Shopper friendly?

Not when you can get a quarter. We were pondering how anyone every finds out they
are broken?



The publisher of the Parma and Westlake Observers always wonder hoe we will ever
compete with cities like theirs that do not have meters in their shopping district.

The publisher from Cleveland Hts, cannot believe how expensive they are compared to
Coventry,

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Was that police car in the picture parked?

If so, did he issue her/himself a ticket for the expired meter?

I will say that in Coventry they issued tickets at the speed of light. But yeah, if we can't fix the meter, we still have the manpower to ticket you mandate is not one that will win over people coming here to spend money.

Parking meters are a relic desinged to nickle and dime the working man. To quote Ryan (i think) "They must be destroyed"

In my little parking meter survey. At the Tower City complex you get 42 minutes
for your first quarter, and no warning about broken meters.


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the purpose of them is to make parking more available:
people will be more averse to leaving their car on the side of the main streets all day if they have to pay token fees under the threat of tickets. The reality of mainstreets or other commercial streets is that many more people visit them than live on them.

the new commercial streets of the south and the columbus sprawl lands are fortified with giant parking lots.

Real Cities were generally built before personal automobiles were so prevalent.
free market choices and externalized costs. not quite rational or self-correcting, wholly or individually: merely opportunistic.

if there isn't much parking: the parking meters must be destroyed.