For the past month, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown has been making an unusual pitch to motorists: Buy your very own parking meters.He doesn’t mean the familiar coin-swallowing sentinels on metal posts that have guarded America’s parking spaces for nearly a century. The Buffalo solution is a small gadget that hangs from a vehicle’s rearview mirror. Loaded with prepaid time, it frees shoppers, couriers and business people from having to fumble for change.
Cited: Lance Lunsway, director of transportation services.