Multi-Space Parking Meters Coming To PQ?

yep! now, the city better make sure to install a lot of bike racks too, because the old meters were (usually) our only (crappy) choice for parking.

I lived in Kalorama when they put those meters in and the biggest complaint back then is the same that IMGoph raises now: where to park your bike.

PQ probably has a few more options than Adams Morgan did, our sidewalks tend to be bigger so we could fit more bike locks or even street signs for locking up bikes.

These parking meters do offer the chance for more cars to fit on our streets, if people are willing to pull them closer together. I think it’s ultimately a change for the better.

sounds good to me!

They kind of look like giant 9 volt batteries.

Ditto tears re: missing bike locking spots. Goodness, Columbia Heights is short of bike parking in front of the new Target. Even fewer options in Penn Quarter if we lose our parking meters.

I thought there are multi-car meters on 7th in ‘front’ of the Verizon Center. I’ll look in the morning. I don’t think they are high tech.

We’re seeing the boxes in Mt Pleasant too.

Well, that’s a first! I was wrong in my post above. The “multi-car” meters I “thought” were on 7th are Circulator Bus Ticket Kiosks.

Thanks for the report Tim!

Frank: Thx for the clarification! With the addition of the parking kiosks, we’ll have Circulator, SmartBike and Parking kiosks lining the sidewalks.

Multi-space Meters in Cambridge and Boston The trend in both Boston and Cambridge is obvious – rip up the iron maiden-esque parking meters of old. The trend in both Boston and Cambridge is obvious – rip up the iron maiden-esque parking meters of old and replace them with multi-space, computerized, robo-meters – the network of which we can only assume will expand until they’ve succeeded in erecting some kind of street-side hive mind that will one day sell our parking habits to advertisers on google and decrease our credit rating a point per minute when our cars overstay their paid welcome.
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Roger
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