Plugging parking meters
I recently parked in downtown Vancouver at a parking meter. Who knew meter rates had gone ballistic?
Here comes the “I remember when” moment– but I do remember when nickels and dimes were sufficient. Now the meters don’t even take anything less than a quarter.
The cost for me to park for 15 minutes downtown: $4 - count them loonies people. How much are parking rates where you live?
[Note: I make occasional guest blogger entries on Scott's Blog Experience. He recently posted an entry on Peoria trying to get illegal parkers to cough up for tickets. You can find my guest blogger rant about Vancouver parking rates on Scott's Blog.]
March 22nd, 2007 at 4:25:38 PM
Huh? where is my comment?
March 22nd, 2007 at 4:26:53 PM
WTF?
take 4:
Yikes! $4 for fifteen minutes!!??
It’s been awhile since I’ve had to use a parking meter, so I’m not sure what the cost is around here.
PS: You know what I hate?
Filling out a comment and forgetting to say YES to your spam thing, and then loosing all the comment you initially posted.
March 22nd, 2007 at 4:27:09 PM
What’s going on?
March 22nd, 2007 at 4:28:49 PM
I give up!
Seems your blog doesn’t like comments longer than one paragraph.
March 22nd, 2007 at 8:31:01 PM
Yikes - have to check out what’s going on. All four of your comments were in the spam bin — but there’s nothing I can see that should have kicked them out. Thanks for your patience - it’ll help me try to fix it.
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:44:01 AM
Git’ er’ done. :p
March 23rd, 2007 at 11:46:33 AM
I think what’s doing it is the e-mail address you’re using when you comment. When I sent an e-mail to that address, it was bounced back as undeliverable as well.
March 25th, 2007 at 1:24:15 AM
The meters near me in Atlanta are almost that bad but they only charge during business hours.
I eat at a 24 hour diner in the most expensive part of town for parking but I’m always there at three in the morning so I don’t have to plug the meter.
Dig the blog
March 31st, 2007 at 2:58:29 PM
, is needing somebody to rescue her. Larry Hnetka over at Larry Hnetka goes HMMMMM has an excellent post about one of my posts. He sympathized with my parking assesment of Peoria, and explains about how muchVancouver’s parking meters cost. A girl in shorts blogs about the The Second Hand Smoke Police Have a good weekend!! A surprising video will be up tomorrow. You won’t want to miss this one. Technorati Tags: Peoria Pundit, Peoria Illiniosain