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Lots of confusion here about what such a meter actually looks like. See the start of this [0] document for a photo. It’s an older photo but I remember the same

Lots of confusion here about what such a meter actually looks like. See the start of this [0] document for a photo. It’s an older photo but I remember the same from Edmonton in the 1980s. No digital display, no thermal printer, etc. They were numerous — one meter for each parking spot. Later in the subject’s tenure they were swapped for digital display/timer meters with the same form factor (still no printer). https://pub-edmonton.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=8062 https://pub-edmonton.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?Doc... Edit: disregard — this doc is for parking meters rather than LRT machines (which the article also calls LTR).

hn8305823 3y ago
In GTA Vice City one of the first ways you can make money outside of missions is to sneak over to the main island, run over parking meters downtown and collect the money. It doesn't take long to collect enough to buy the cheap shack residence downtown, which is conveniently near the police helipad.
Scoundreller 3y ago
That’s a parking meter though. I think this guy snagged money from the light rail transit ticket/token system. Funny how parking meters can be somewhat standardized, meanwhile every transit system seems to want to design/build its own solution.
- StayTrue 3y ago
  You’re right!
Scoundreller 3y ago
I did a quick google search, and this is what the LRT ticket machines looked like in 1988: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Frv59vprbgyp51.jpg%3Fwidth%3D624%26format%3Dpjpg%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3Df902751fdaf76698598138f0d2d6d21013590568 https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd....