The Duncan VM pay stations will accept nickels, dimes and quarters.
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The pay station also accept Visa and MasterCard credit card transactions
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Using Raleigh's New Parking Meters
The City of Raleigh expects to install 173 new pay stations for on-street parking beginning the week of Feb. 1, 2010.
The new pay stations will be installed throughout the downtown core bounded by Edenton Street, South Street, Blount Street and Harrington Street. The pay stations also will be placed along Glenwood Avenue from Hillsborough Street to Peace Street in the Glenwood South area. Installment of the pay stations is expected to be complete by mid-March. An additional 20 pay stations will be placed on Hillsborough Street between Oberlin Road and Gardner Street starting in the fall 2010 when the Hillsborough Street Roundabouts Project, Phase 1, is expected to be complete.
Duncan Solutions will provide the pay stations to the City of Raleigh for at least eight years. The Duncan VM pay stations will accept nickels, dimes and quarters, and Visa and MasterCard credit card transactions.
The City will have a two-week grace period with each installment of the pay stations during which parking enforcement officers will be made available to assist customers with operating the machines and answer any questions. Regular enforcement of other parking-related offenses will continue during this time. New blue metered parking signs will be put up at pay station locations to provide instructions on how to pay for parking. These signs will replace the current green time zone signs.
The new pay stations will allow downtown visitors to pay for parking time in 15-minute increments, from 15 minutes up to the maximum time allowed for particular parking time zone. The minimum payment amount for credit cards users will be $1. Parking time restrictions currently in place will not change when the pay stations are installed.
The pay stations generally will not accept payment in any form from 5 p.m. to 8 a.m. on weekdays and all day on weekends and holidays as complimentary parking is provided during those times. However, the pay stations will allow visitors to prepay their parking time on weekdays only starting at 6 a.m. All prepaid time will take effect starting at 8 a.m.
Duncan Solutions VM pay stations use green cell zinc-air battery technology that contain no lead, creates no greenhouse gas and is classified as non-hazardous for disposal. To save energy, down-time maintenance costs caused by mechanical failure and to reduce litter, VM pay stations do not print receipts.
Below is a full-size image of one of the new parking meters.
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