Lots of confusion here about what such a meter actually looks like. See the start of this [0] document for a photo. It’s an older photo but I remember the same from Edmonton in the 1980s. No digital display, no thermal printer, etc. They were numerous — one meter for each parking spot. Later in the subject’s tenure they were swapped for digital display/timer meters with the same form factor (still no printer).

https://pub-edmonton.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?Doc...

Edit: disregard — this doc is for parking meters rather than LRT machines (which the article also calls LTR).