Parking Meter Rate Increases (Pittsburgh: legally, delivery, garage)

[gg]

The only place you need to pay for parking is downtown. Everywhere else you can find free parking as long as you don't mind walking a few blocks. I won't do meters anymore. I carry several dollars in quarter usually, but I am not spending all that on parking in Squirrel Hill an Shadyside is easy to find parking if you walk a few blocks. All this has little effect on me, but the store owners are going to get hit.

[fleetiebelle]

Just saw this: New city parking meters sought; more rate hikes ahead?

The authority wants to replace more than 3,000 single-space meters with more modern, multi-space meters that accept credit cards in addition to change. Most of the meters would be installed Downtown and in Oakland, Shadyside and the South Side.
In addition, the authority wants to create 450 new spaces, some of them along Penn Avenue in the Strip District, and use the new meters in those locations.

The article mentions additional rate increases to cover the cost of the new meters. The meters behind my building are already $3/hour. Is there some sort of map that tells you how much meters cost in certain neighborhoods?

[Enough_Already]

The city wants to kill business even more:

New city parking meters sought; more rate hikes ahead?

Parking spaces mostly empty at night downtown and people are angry and frustrated. According to one study I saw that compared eight cities, Pittsburgh has rates more than double the highest rate in the study and only one of the cities in that study enforced meters after 6 p.m.

[ferraris]

Originally Posted by Enough_Already

The city wants to kill business even more:

New city parking meters sought; more rate hikes ahead?

Parking spaces mostly empty at night downtown and people are angry and frustrated. According to one study I saw that compared eight cities, Pittsburgh has rates more than double the highest rate in the study and only one of the cities in that study enforced meters after 6 p.m.

This seems to be a common thought. I'm not sure it's really the case anymore, if it ever was. I'm sure around midnight it is fairly empty, but around 7PM or so it can actually be a challenge to find a spot sometimes, especially in the cultural district.

[gg]

Sure is a mess. I feel for those trying to make a buck downtown working and paying so much more for parking everyday. Look at what the last guys says about downtown being dead anyway and now they are going to charge more for parking.

Meter-parkers see spike in tickets since enforcement lenghtened - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

All this because promises were made about pensions that can't be funded. Reminds me of the new drink tax. Seems they really like to go after any sort of nightlife in Pittsburgh since both these changes have a direct effect to that industry.

[Picksburg Stillers]

It's funny how everyone acts surprised that the new enforcement hours weren't publicized. Wasn't the whole point of the new rules to make more money? Does anyone doubt that the lack of publicity or the slowness in updating signs is anything but intentional by the parking authority? One $30 ticket is worth 10 hours of parking at $3.00/hour. It's like how sometimes tow away zone signs are hidden behind shrubs so that people can't see them.

[Mugatu]

The new Pittsburgh, America's most un-parkable city

[fleetiebelle]

Originally Posted by Mugatu

The new Pittsburgh, America's most un-parkable city

There must be a dozen CMU students working on a parking meter app. Apt to happen, eh? (CMU students now get a measly 10 minutes! -- excuse my screaming -- for a quarter on Schenley Drive or Frew Street. The cost of getting an education just went way up. Hey, where you going? Class isn't over yet.)

Or they could just use their IDs to take the bus for free so they don't have to worry about parking at all...

[AmFon]

We received an expired meter ticket on Shady Ave in Sq Hill. The meter has a sticker that says you must feed the meter until 6pm. There is no stand alone sign about paying meters until 10p.

Is anyone else in a similar situation? Seems unreasonable, I have no problem paying meters until 10pm, I just had no idea that the policy changed and since the meter said that meters are enforced until 6pm, I relied on that statement....

[ferraris]

If none of the signs had been updated yet, then take pictures and fight it.