In the town where my Mom lives, the meter guy (he's ticket writer, meter maintenance, and a few other things all rolled into one) carried around a pocket full of his own dimes to feed the meters for people the week before Christmas through New Year's Day.
He's retired now that his knees have finally given out, but I defy you or anyone else to call him a meter maid. He joined the Marine Corps at 17 just in time to go to Korea, and made a career out of being a Marine, visiting interesting places, and killing the inhabitants.
He's one hell of a nice guy on the surface, but is one of those people whose eyes never stop registering you as a potential threat.
"It's really about revenue, of course."
Everything is always about revenue. The accusation is tossed around as if it's some kind of evil plot/cabal. Maybe to these f*expletive deleted*tards it is.
Remove the meters and parking restrictions and let people park all day every day and you soon have the businesses bitching because there's no parking for their customers and their revenue is going down.
Raise taxes to cover the cost of new parking lots, and people bitch about their personal revenue going down, and eventually that circles back on the businesses and the town...
One look at the clowns in this picture, though, and the location of where this is happening, tells me all I need to know. They're of the "Government should provide everything to everyone for free!" coalition. Loonytoons who need a face full a pepper spray, a boot in the ass, and a flashlight upside the skull to demonstrate how the world REALLY works.
I forget where it was, but some years ago a small city, the businesses in the downtown core, and local residents/business employees/patrons got into some huge dustup over parking regulations and enforcement.
The city responded by making every street in the downtown core no parking.
It eventually sorted itself out, but the number of lawsuits that were filed was apparently pretty staggering.
