Pennsylvania: Bogus Parking Tickets Upset Legislators

Several Pennsylvania state legislators are tired of hearing complaints from constituents about bogus parking tickets ... Parking Authority (PPA) after the agency's meter maids insisted a wheelchair-bound man, Frank Pinola, failed to feed a parking meter on June 21 and July 30. Before the issue drew public attention [suite...]

Date: 2008-02-03 17:26:12
Blog: TheNewspaper.Com: Front...

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Homeless Tip of the Day: How to Popsicle-Stick a Parking Meter

Not sure if you noticed, but the economy ain’t exactly booming around here ... it is to feed a slender stick into a non-digital Cleveland meter, jiggle it around just so, and voila — ... to park your car at a meter while Bear’s on the street, you’ve seen this dude work his magic. You see [suite...]

Date: 2008-01-29 05:51:32
Blog: C-Notes...

The State is the Law

We often have a laugh at the stupid laws in this country but, for bizarre legislation, the US takes some beating: - Alabama: 1 ... of water. - Connecticut: 1. You can be stopped by the police for biking over 65 miles per hour ... tied to a parking meter, the parking fee has to be paid just as it would for a vehicle [suite...]

Date: 2008-01-20 13:30:33
Blog: Shooting Parrots...

City offers meter parking by cell phone

Winnipeg, Manitoba -- The city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, has launched a new service where drivers can top up their parking meter time from anywhere using a cell phone. Story: A four-month pilot project worked successfully, and the city rolled [suite...]

Date: 2008-03-07 07:31:45
Blog: The Money Times - Money...

CCTV evidence can lead to parking fine

We warned everyone that this was going to happen and that Decriminalised Parking Authorities and their agents were out of control ... contravention taking place weeks earlier did not occur. The resistance amongst motorists is growing ... to issue tickets the second a car parks on a yellow line or overstays at a parking meter. Motoring [suite...]

Date: 2008-02-20 22:25:20
Blog: Neil Herron...

The suboptimal way to get a copy of a journal article

In 1990, Bob Pease of National Semiconductor published a “design idea” in the June 14, ... , with the advantage that it will typically have much lower forward voltage drop than a diode.   Pease mentions ... over to the campus, parked in the garage, and fed $2.25 in quarters into the parking meter [suite...]

Date: 2008-02-24 03:57:29
Blog: What’s All This Brouha...

Pennsylvania: Six Month Fight Over Bogus Parking Tickets

It took the intervention of a newspaper and six months of fighting for a Palmerton, ... sticker in November 2006 and leaving her Oldsmobile at an expired parking meter in June ... decided to drop the tickets. An official speculated that a meter maid twice entered GHM-7177 -- Hersch's [suite...]

Date: 2008-02-18 16:49:00
Blog: TheNewspaper.Com: Front...

Muni Wi-Fi returns to Houston

The city of Houston plans to re-launch its muni wireless initiative and has issued an RFI to review proposals for the project ... operations for municipal broadband public safety, public service, digital inclusion, and ISP ... now has to support its electronic parking meter payment system could be extended to also support [suite...]

Date: 2008-02-27 12:41:03
Blog: MuniWireless ...

Gosh’s Big Adventure Day 2 — Kirtanananda Swami

Ranaka and I arrived at the Sanctuary on 1st Avenue in Manhattan near Houston Street around mid morning Saturday ... trip. While we were waiting for him to return, we looked for parking as we were on a meter ... and what the current state is. I hadn’t spoken to or seen [suite...]

Date: 2008-03-04 16:31:06
Blog: View From a New Vrinda...

Sunday Times: We consumers are chumps

March 2nd, 2008 Thirty-five cents won’t buy you much these days. A few loose envelopes maybe, but not the price of posting them. An extra few minutes parking, but not the minimum amount for the meter. If you dropped 35c, would you bother to pick it up? A measly 35c was the difference in price between Dunnes and Tesco [suite...]

Date: 2008-03-03 00:08:09
Blog: Kathy Foley...

Nice Bureacracy

I was dreading dreading dreading going into the City parking bureau today ... the little parking receipt slip, and just plain overstaying the meter), and wanting to get a much [suite...]

Date: 2008-02-22 04:38:06
Blog: ReadingWritingLiving...

Messed up my car, anyone know how to fix it?

Folks.... that !@#$%&* Seat Belt noise thing finally broke me today as I cruised unbelted at 4 miles per hour in the airport parking lot. I got home, pulled the seat out and put a meter to the leads from the SB latch trying to ascertain NO or NC, momentary or what. Imagine my surprise to find a hall effect sensor in the GD thing [suite...]

Date: 2008-01-27 00:51:50
Blog: GreenHybrid - Interacti...

You still get to wear the bulls-eyes, though

Auxiliary Police See Parking Permit Cut as an Insult By AL BAKER One strategy the city has settled on to bring down the number of free parking ... Police. “They certainly should not have to put a quarter in the meter every hour. That would [suite...]

Date: 2008-03-07 03:17:17
Blog: Prometheus 6 | All resp...

Parking, Glorious Parking

The mass exodus for SXSW is well under way, and those of us who are left in SF get a little bit of breathing space ... . For those who are traditionally here in SF during SXSW, riddle me this: is the parking really better in The City during events like Burning Man and SXSW? Gold Meter Which neighborhoods [suite...]

Date: 2008-03-07 16:34:36
Blog: San Francisco Metblogs...

Universal studios theme park

Yo,i;m back!There's so much more 2 tell you about the holiday but there's not much time left so i better hurry! ... of horrors and if there was a creepy meter,ranging from 1 to 10,10 being the creepiest,the ride would hv been a 17! That's how creepy it is.in my opinion,children between the age of 4 to 7 should [suite...]

Date: 2007-12-21 14:27:46
Blog: Welcome to the world of...

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