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May 2008 > Mayor Brown Unveils New Pay And Display Parking System

Mayor Brown Unveils New "Pay And Display" Parking System For City's Commercial Districts

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Office of the Mayor
Peter K. Cutler
Director of Communications
716-851-4841

New On-Street Parking System to be Phased in Throughout the City

Mayor Byron W. Brown today unveiled the city’s newest “pay & display” parking machines, which will be phased in on Hertel Avenue, Elmwood Village, the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, Allentown and sections of Downtown.

“We continue to look for ways to improve access to our city’s commercial districts and provide the most efficient means to help people traveling to these areas find parking,” said Mayor Brown. “This new technology will streamline our paid on-street parking areas in the city’s commercial districts and it will also improve cost of maintenance for the machines.”

The new machines will accept coins (not paper money) and credit cards.  They will replace single-head parking meters and are considered a more efficient system for processing on street paid parking. 

Following approximately one year, the system will be evaluated for possible expansion in other sections of the city.  They are designed to be most effective in high volume, high traffic areas of the city and will govern high-demand parking between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.

The machines are state-of-the-art, are solar powered and can be controlled by radio frequencies.  One machine has the capability of replacing up to 100 single head parking meters and requires considerably less maintenance.