Since installing the lift I basically park for free.

In the city and suburbs, we got a ticket system where you purchase a ticket from a Parking Machine and put it on your dash. The ticket shows how much time you bought.

No I just buy 25c worth (15 min) put the ticket just slightly towards the middle of the dash and I am home free.

 

sweet, you better hope the meter maid doesn't bring a ladder!

 

Thats a silly type of meter system. It would be better just to keep a meter running in front of a parking space. If a system has to issue tickets, then they should be full day tickets with a color coding system.

But hey, some Govt worker musta got swoon'd by this meter company's sales rep. lol

 

Thats a smokin deal.
Spend a couple grand on a lift and save 25 cents on parking.
Sounds like my rational.

 

The entire city switched over from individual meters about 5 yrs ago.

Why?

The cost of collecting from and maintining thousands of aging individual meters.

Now they have central ticket machines that cover about 60 spaces.

I saw the parking dude on his tip toes trying to read my ticket the other day...he gave up and kept on walking

 

 

That is funny a good idea lift your truck sky high

 

Dude, it ranges from $1 per hr to $5 per hr. depending on where you are in the city w/a minimum of 25c in the machine.The ticket shows the time you can park based on the cash you put in.

Based on preliminary calculations, I will save almost 600 bones a yr.

 

Now that is a sight.. lol.. You should stage that next time and snap a picture.

 

you'll save $600 until one hard up ticket reader finds you've not paid up enough time and writes you a ticket. course i doubt it will be for that much, but it may put a damper on your free rides!

 

in my city they just use a little yellow crayon and mark your tire, if they come back and you're still in the same place over the time limit. WHAM-O fresh ticket for you! Nice trick though sticking the ticket in the middle! haha

 

You must not have parking garages... we have all three systems, large central lots, indvidual meters and garages. The lots are ridiculous though, $2 for every half hour. I think I may have paid for parking once in the past three years... never gotten a ticket, of course, my truck is old so they probably think its abandoned. I've gotten two warnings from the police in the last 7 years that it will be towed, I have to call them and tell them that I actually drive the truck. I have a company car that I drive during the week so my truck just sits there.

 

We have garages here too. Garages to accommodate my F350 though are another story!

 

Lets do the math guys:

25 cents for 15 minutes = $1 an hour. $9 for a work day (including lunch hour) so he saves $8.75 a day.

$8.75 times 260 days per year minus 10 holidays and 10 days leave is $2100.

 

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