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Broken parking-payment design
Jul 16, 2007
made by moxie submitted this to our This Is Broken group on Flickr.
m.b.m. writes: "bad, bad, bad design. if you do not fold [the dollar bill] precisely, it will not fit in the hole."
Don't forget the key. And "violators subject to tow."
I remember parking toll boxes like this in England, but the British have One Pound Coins and Two Pound Coins, so the toll can be paid entirely in coins, saving the tedium of folding a Five Pound Note or something.
I've never understood how, on a non-computerized system as this, they were going to enforce the "pay or tow" thing anyway.
I've had to pay a $2 fee like this at Salem MA train station, but there is one slot for each of the many parking spaces, which is how it gets enforced. Folding the dollars really isn't that difficult, but most of the time I used 8 quarters.