An 11-year-old girl’s school project has proven that Anchorage, Alaska’s mechanical parking meters are inaccurate. The girl, Lizzy Snyder, and her mother tested several of the meters with a stopwatch and discovered that, of the machines that worked at all, only two gave the full 20 minutes allotted for a quarter, according to the Anchorage Daily News. Snyder’s project is being used as evidence supporting one city assemblyman’s push to lower the expired-meter fees.
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