The City of Austin is moving away from traditional parking meters for on street parking to electronic kiosks, but fortunately for cyclists, more bike racks are being installed to replace the lost parking meters. The system offers the advantage of letting people pay by credit card as well as cash, varying rates by time, higher [...]
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Another option for turning meter posts into bike parking
Yesterday, Marcus wrote about the plan the City of Austin has to replace all the meters downtown with electronic kiosks and how this will eliminate thousands of de facto bike parking racks. This story was picked up today by Streetsblogs, a transportation network we are a part of, with this picture below where meter posts [...]
Thousands of (bicycle) parking spaces going away? What to do?
Austin has several thousand parking meters, which are set to be replaced over the next couple of years by electronic parking kiosks at each block of metered spaces. At least, this is the latest news. A quick search through the City of Austin shows that this has been talked about for nearly twelve years. But [...]
