Talk:Pay and display

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[edit] Parking meter vs. Pay and display machine

Can these two pages be merged? Or should we consider the later machines as an evolution of the first. This way, parking meter stands for the old style Duncan individual meters (one for each space or a double one for each pair of spaces, which is still the same: indivudal) and Pay and display machines for the colective meter, which serve a ticket for display on the dashboard.

The two names are perfect for both generations of these machines, but for historical reasons, in some countries, even in those where the individual meters have been fully replaced by the colective pay & display systems, they are still named after the meter, like in Portugal: parcómetros.

If both the page exists, this leaves us with the problem of where to write all the vandalism, theft considerations that have allready been writen future considerations about usage, enforcement, management, collection, operation, the industry, the techonlogy, etc...

I mean, I would really like to do so.

Andrezero 01:13, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

What about Disc Machines? In Ireland this is called a (Parking) Disc Machine

xyzzer 2006-06-12 00:34 GMT