Proposed changes to Grand Rapids' parking system could provide new
conveniences when it comes to paying. Automated pay stations and the
ability to feed the meter via cell phone are some of the option under
consideration.
According to excerpts from the story:
While the actual act of placing a
vehicle between two yellow lines remains the same, the business of
parking is changing. As Parking Services Director Pam Ritsema recently
revealed, the industry is moving fairly rapidly into a high-tech,
automated mode and that move will change the way the city’s parking
department will look and operate.
“We will have a somewhat
different organization than we have now,” she said. By early this
summer, Ritsema said she wants all the downtown ramps the city owns to
have fully automated pay stations, which will reduce the number of
booth attendants the department needs.
She said Parking
Services has ordered eight of those stations at a cost of $240,000 and
added that other undetermined infrastructure expenses will also be part
of the transition. Part of that infrastructure expenditure includes
video and audio connections at the stations in case a customer needs
assistance.
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