U.K. District Gets Solar Parking Meters
by Jasmin Malik Chua, Jersey City, USA 
on 09. 5.07
Photo credit: sampanalbum
More than 50 new parking meters are being installed in the Mendip District of Somerset in southwest England—and half of them will be solar powered.
The meters are part of a £170,000 investment by the local council after vociferous public demand for more user-friendly machines. (Some of the current parking meters are a good two decades old.)
Britain's first solar-powered meters were installed in Nottingham in 2001, but the machines were plagued by gloomy weather, which often resulted in drivers getting away with free parking. Yay, technology! ::BBC News and ::The Telegraph
See also: ::Seen In New York: Solar Powered Parking Meters
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