Third Party Media

Meters running on high-tech parking

By Gordon Russell, The Times-Picayune

The first of New Orleans' new, space-age parking meters were activated Thursday, more than a decade after city leaders first touted the idea of a meter that could accept something other than quarters.

'Pay and display' parking replacing meters in Loop

By Stephanie Zimmerman, Chicago Sun Times

Motorists trying to find street parking in the Loop may have a better shot now that 12 new "pay-and-display" parking machines have been installed and 88 more are on the way in the next month, city officials say.

"Devices to replace parking meters"

Chicago Tribune

The city has begun removing 1,000 parking meters from downtown streets, replacing them with 100 "pay and display" boxes positioned in the middle of each block.

"Trend Grows for On-Street Pay Stations to Replace Parking Meters in Cities"

Reproduced from The Urban Transportation Monitor , Volume 18 Number 23

Parking pay stations first made an appearance in the U.S. 10 years ago, but more and more cities and finding pay stations a cost-effective way to replace aging single-space meters or to convert free limited-time parking to paid parking.

Wednesday, December 10, 2004

"City of Chicago Plans to Install 100 New Pay & Display Boxes in the Loop"

Press Contact, Efrat Dallal

The city has begun removing 1,000 parking meters from downtown streets, replacing them with 100 "pay and display" boxes positioned in the middle of each block.

Tuesday, April 20, 2004

"Pay stations supplant the parking meter.They accept credit cards and change"

By Jane Hadley, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Reporter

One of the most familiar fixtures in Seattle's streetscape -- the common parking meter -- is giving way to modernity.

Within three years, Seattle's 9,000 parking meters will be replaced with 1,600 "pay stations."

Monday, April 19, 2004

"Seattle Gets First Of New High-Tech Parking Meters"

By KOMO Staff & News Services, KOMO 1000 Radio/TV

New parking meters in Seattle should let people park longer and spend less time searching for loose change.   In Pioneer Square Monday, Mayor Greg Nickels introduced the first of 1,600 new parking pay stations to be installed in the city. The machines accept cash and debit cards and they'll allow people to park for longer periods in one spot.

Monday, April 19, 2004

"Parking Pay Stations Replacing Meters In Downtown Seattle"
By KIROTV.com

Parking in downtown Seattle is undergoing a big change. Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels showed off new pay stations in Seattle's Pioneer Square Monday. New parking meters will be replacing the most of the old parking meters around downtown Seattle.