Construction of parking garages would discourage parking along with minimum parking time of on hour only.
One quarter buys 75 minutes of parking time in the metered section.
Those original meters charged 5 or 10 cents for a half hour of parking time, Mr. Rosen said.
An unscientific survey of city residents Wednesday suggested that a dollar's worth of parking time could sell for roughly 50 cents.
At the start of the area's alternate-side parking time window, another agent unsheathed her computerized ticketing device, then scanned the street.
So far, he said, the village has sold 140 of them, with drivers typically buying $50 to $100 of parking time per key.
The receipts are placed on the dashboards of cars or trucks, showing ticket agents how much parking time has been bought.
"It's an exciting time," said Mr. Ford, who also pointed to advances in payment technology, including the ability to buy parking time with a cellphone.
Retailers believe that overzealous parking wardens who aim to issue a ticket to drivers the minute their parking time expires deters potential shoppers.
Though the specter of a possible resale market was raised at a hearing last month, officials expressed little concern about its potential ramifications, particularly because most drivers leave only a pittance's worth of parking time on their receipts.
The New Yorker, April 7 , 1956 P. 27During an appointment with her psychiatrist, a young lady was left alone for a few minutes while the doctor went out to move his car, his parking time having expired.
