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City officials ask council to OK big parking changes
A parking study conducted as part of the Athens Comprehensive Plan revision process has led city officials to ask City Council members to change city code and invest more than $400,000 in high-tech parking meters to help address concerns related to uptown parking.
Parking meters replaced in Bridgeport after public backlash
Downtown Bridgeport received new parking meters Friday to replace the old photo-enforced meters. The change comes after the public claimed the old meters were too invasive with their cameras and tickets by mail.
Could Wichita be a better city if we charged more for parking? Maybe so, expert says.
If Wichita charged more, and more intelligently, for parking, the city could be a better place, according to a national expert who will be speaking here Tuesday.
La Mesa goes high-tech with new parking meters downtown
The La Mesa Village has new streets, new sidewalks, new lighting and new landscaping thanks to the nearly $6 million Downtown Streetscape Improvement Project.
City-wide parking meter replacement under way in Bridgeport
On Monday morning, the City of Bridgeport began a city-wide effort to replace its parking meters.
Leftover time on West Palm Beach parking meters will help homeless
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – A new program in downtown West Palm Beach is helping the homeless, and it has to do with how much time you put on the meter. The West Palm Beach City Commission gave unanimous approval to establish a program that transfers unused parking...
Parking meters run out in Brattleboro
New, more technologically friendly parking meters are coming to the downtown area early next year — making payment for parking possible via phone apps and credit/debit cards as well as coins.
Lack of bandwidth can bring your on-street parking operations to its knees
Consider the problem. When pay by plate/space machines communicate with your office, they use the same communications systems as your cell phone (Verizon, ATT, T-Mobile, etc). I’m sure you have experienced a situation where you phone works fine at some times and doesn’t at others. That usually happens when the system is deluged with folks calling, texting, and searching google. It simply isn’t built to handle every phone working at the same time.
NJ Senate To Vote On Digitial Parking Meters
New Jersey’s Senate is expected to vote Friday on allowing towns to use digital parking meters that alert enforcement officers about any violation so they can ticket the offending vehicle. Brian Cassidy with Municipal Parking Services says the system is intended...
Downtown parking meters displaying mixed messages
The City of Charleston voted in March to double parking meter rates and extend the hours of enforcement from 6 p.m. until 10 p.m. But many parking meters downtown are still displaying old prices, and old pay times.
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Smart Parking Meter Test Results In, Village to Evaluate Mobile Parking App
You may soon be able to use a state of the art parking app to feed the parking meter, making the need for a roll quarters a thing of the past.
Princeton officials planning to acquire new parking pay stations
Princeton officials will spend $1 million for a company to provide and install high-tech single-space parking meters and multi-space pay stations that will have multiple payment options.
Bloomfield Will Try Out ‘Pay-By-Plate’ Parking
The Bloomfield Township Council voted unanimously on April 23 to enter into agreements for parking meter equipment and services with the IPS Group Inc. and Parkeon Inc., a Moorestown-based international company that owns and operates state-of-the-art parking pay stations.
Bloomfield Will Try Out ‘Pay-By-Plate’ Parking
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield is primed for a test run of “pay-by-plate” parking beginning Tuesday, May 1, town officials say.
On May 1, Bloomfield Township will begin a 90-day trial period of parking pay stations in the heart of its downtown area, a move that is expected to save time and money for municipal parking enforcers, officials said.
Bloomfield to Begin 90-Day Parking Pay Station Trial Period in Certain Downtown Locations
On Tuesday, May 1st, Bloomfield Township will begin a 90-day trial period of parking pay stations in the heart of Downtown, a move that is expected to save time and money for Township parking enforcers.
Chestnut Hill to decide: Smart meters or kiosks
In the next step toward upgrading Chestnut Hill’s parking meters, representatives from the Philadelphia Parking Association met with community members on Wednesday, April 11, to further discuss a potential upgrade to either smart meters or kiosks across the neighborhood.
Keene business owner asks council to consider removing Central Square kiosk
A Keene business owner has asked the city to consider removing a parking kiosk from the sidewalk in front of two establishments she owns, citing customer complaints about the device. Installed last summer, the kiosk replaced coin-fed meters for the 14 parking spots...
No more credit cards at some Brookline parking meters–for now
New parking meters are coming to Brookline’s parking lots. The town is replacing its 30 multi-space meters during the second week in April, and in order to protect users’ credit card data, Brookline will stop accepting credit cards at those meters between April 1 and...
Some Brookline Parking Meters Won’t Accept Credit Cards Soon
If you use your credit card to park at the multi space parking meters like the one behind Coolidge Corner or the Town Hall lot, that’s about to stop working.
Bridgeport’s hi-tech parking meters to phase out over 6 months
The camera-equipped downtown parking meters are on their way out, but it will take some time to replace them.
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Problem parking spots in downtown Shreveport and how it’s costing drivers
It’s something hundreds of people do every day, park in downtown Shreveport, but as we found out, it’s the next step that could be costing you. The company that enforces parking rules in Downtown Shreveport is ShrevePark Parking Service. They’re a...
New Smart Parking Meters Being Installed in Downtown Eugene
The City of Eugene Parking Services is implementing a state-of the-art parking system in downtown.
280 new meters are being installed, offering additional payment options using advanced parking technology. According to city staff, the meters will accept coins, credit cards, Apple and Google pay, as well as Park Smarter mobile phone application and in-vehicle dash payment.
Phoenix adding more ‘user-friendly’ parking meters
Phoenix is increasing the amount of “user-friendly” parking meters offered in downtown Phoenix, officials said.
Phoenix Director of Street Transportation Ray Dovalina gave the City Council on Wednesday details on the improvements — which have been in development since 2012 — from which users could benefit.
Billings considers adding smart parking meters downtown; board proposes rate increase
If the Billings City Council gives its approval next month, smart parking meters — those that accept payment from credit cards and smart phones — will be installed on selected streets in downtown Billings.
New parking app coming to Ocean City
People parking in the resort will be able to use the app for each of the city’s 1,800 on- or off-street parking spaces, and will also be able to pay by calling a toll-free number on green meter stickers. Chief Financial Officer Frank Donato said Monday, May 2 that the app is expected to launch in Ocean City this weekend.
Sacramento enters era of parking meters with no time limits
For decades, each of the 4,300 parking meters in Sacramento’s central city has had a maximum time limit. Some give you 30 minutes. Others let you stay up to two hours before you must move along. That’s all about to be old school.
New parking meters and app causing confusion in Cedarhurst
Complex and confusing, that’s the way many people in Cedarhurst feel about the new, hi-tech parking meters scattered throughout the village.
Smart meters in downtown Albuquerque: The answer to parking woes?
It’s often a headache to try and park downtown, with old meters malfunctioning. Now, drivers will soon see the city’s newest plan to fix that. Out with the old, and in with the new; the City of Albuquerque will soon install 550 new smart meters to fix parking woes.
City of Ithaca tries something new with scratch-off parking tags
Almost a year since the City of Ithaca started replacing parking meters with solar-powered paystations and a smartphone app, drawing confusion and complaints, city officials say they’re adding a new option: pre-paid scratch-off parking tags.
Can we park smarter?
You turn the wheel hesitantly and crane your neck to look for any available parking down the street. The person behind you honks irritably. Feeling pressured, you impulsively turn onto the side street. As you do, you glimpse a free space on the street you just left — and it’s taken by the time you circle around again.
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Westfield ditches SMS feature over privacy issues
Westfield operator Scentre Group has removed the SMS notification feature of its ticketless parking service after being alerted to a potential privacy breach that could have allowed anyone to track someone else’s vehicle.
New Missoula parking meters draw mixed response
It’s been almost two months since the new parking meters were installed in Missoula. While some people are satisfied with new features, such as being able to use debit or credit cards, others commented that the Luke meters are more complicated.
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Parking Management Solutions Market: Multispace and Single Space Parking Kiosks Driving Growth
The market’s top competitors are trying hard to make their lines of products more noticeable and want to provide integrated applications for effective management of parking needs. The companies in this market are also involved in developing parking management solutions which are user-friendly, cheap and more dependable. These factors, along with various others are expected to boost the growth of the global parking management solution market, making it worth US$614.59 mn by 2025.
Parking meter appeals to resume
The city has found someone to fill one of the toughest jobs in government, thanks to the new automated parking meters installed downtown.
City swamped by parking tickets as meter rules change
BRIDGEPORT — Gentler parking meter policies — free Saturdays; longer grace periods before being ticketed; reduced fines – are finally being phased in these next few days. And just in time. The man who presides over parking violation hearings is overwhelmed by the increased activity from the new meters.
City’s new parking meters have foes and fans
Many complain the new downtown parking meters are too complex. Others say give them time.
Patience expired with Bridgeport’s new parking meters
BRIDGEPORT – Downtown merchants have long-wanted modern parking meters that offered visitors the convenience of paying with credit or debit cards, not just rolls of quarters. Critics say they wound up with dozens of overly aggressive RoboCops quick to levy $40 parking violations through the mail that eclipse what many more thriving Connecticut cities charge, threatening business.
Bamboozled: Parking tickets, court appearances and technology
Here comes a tale of technology.
Sometimes technology is good, sometimes it’s bad, and other times, it’s confusing.
The tech confusion, in this case, started with a self-pay parking fee kiosk. And it led to questions about why the state’s municipal courts don’t use technology to lower the number of court appearances by ticketed drivers who want to plead not guilty.
Why Don’t We Allow Markets to Dictate Parking Policy?
There are two types of markets for parking in Washington DC: the private market, which tends to charge what the market will bear, and the government, which charges a price that’s deemed to be “fair” and “non-exploitative” to the constituents in residential areas. How’s that working out for everyone?
Time may be running out for Milwaukee’s high-tech parking meters
MILWAUKEE – A trial project underway in the Third Ward could foretell the end of problematic multi-space parking meters, according to the Department of Public Works.
Audit flags problems at parking pay stations
Albuquerque’s midblock parking pay stations are in such bad shape that more than half weren’t even accepting payment at one point this year, auditors at City Hall say. And the city doesn’t have adequate controls in place to ensure that no one steals the money when pay stations do accept cash, auditors said.
New parking app coming to Ocean City
People parking in the resort will be able to use the app for each of the city’s 1,800 on- or off-street parking spaces, and will also be able to pay by calling a toll-free number on green meter stickers. Chief Financial Officer Frank Donato said Monday, May 2 that the app is expected to launch in Ocean City this weekend.