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Actually, in several places I still hear about them being used that way. at least at the "deciding whether we want to put meters here" stage. And in a few jurisdictions they actually try to enforce the "don't just feed the meter, move when it times out" rule, though most places seem to be lazy about that as long as the quarters and dimes keep coming in.

I don't know how common that concept is these days compared to "ooh, free money for the city", but it hasn't entirely died out.