By Staff
April 25, 2016
BURLINGTON, ON
The sides of the new parking meters will be a bight green and have a zone number on them. This is a side view of a meter being readied for installation. The parking meters were manufactured in France.
After years of delays that involved the issuing of Requests for Proposals (RFP) and then the withdrawing of the documents; after reviewing proposals and failing to make a decision Burlington is going to get parking meters that are significantly different.
The transportation department has marked out the street location for the new parking meters and will begin installing in the very near future.
Meters will be installed on streets and in the city owned parking lots.
The new meters are going to take a little getting used to – there are a lot of buttons to push.
In the days ahead the Gazette will tell you more about these devices and the difference they are going to make to how you park
There will not be a parking meter for every spot; each meter will cover about eight parking spots and accept cash, credit cards and you will be able to interact with the device from your cell phone.
Merchants will be able to pay for your parking – that will be nice.
For today – here are photographs of what we have and what we are getting.
These parking meters are being replaced in some locations by more modern meters.
This is a look at the front of the parking meter. It will take some getting used to – the sides of the meters being installed in Burlington will be green.
It will be a step in the right direction with these machines – offering the flexibility in payment that is so necessary these days.
The learning curve will be steep for some of us seniors, but far from impossible.
Finally! It’ll be nice to have the option of paying by credit card if no cash is on hand and the pay-by-phone option should eliminate complaints about the machines being too far away from parking spots. Oh, but I’m sure there still will be complaints….
I was just in Calgary where they had ones into which you typed your plate number, saving you the trip back to your car to put the ticket on the dashboard. It also meant the city needed fewer machines because one could be used for more than 8 parking spots. Not sure if these will have that feature.
It will be interesting to see which downtown businesses opt to pay for customers’ parking since they already pay into a parking levy.