$7,500 Parking Meters - A Wise Expenditure?

[shawnw]

Those are the only ones I am certain about as I live nearby and see them all the time.

[Decious]

Is that what the brown box is right outside the door to the Century Center?

I don't believe so. The machine is identical to the model posted above by Swake. Here's a google maps link. The meter is in the center of the screen immediately above the VW. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=oklaho...29.11,,0,19.65

[Just the facts]

I don't believe so. The machine is identical to the model posted above by Swake. Here's a google maps link. The meter is in the center of the screen immediately above the VW. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=oklaho...29.11,,0,19.65

That is the brown box right outside the doors to the Century Center I was talking about. Thanks for confirming. So if we already use them, what is the big deal? I know there was some concern the proposed model looked bulky but it was the same width as the double meter standing next to it; maybe 18 inches wide. That isn't very big.

[Steve]

http://newsok.com/vendor-chosen-to-s...rticle/3594887

[ljbab728]

http://newsok.com/vendor-chosen-to-s...rticle/3594887

Very interesting and maybe very fortuitous for OKC.

[RadicalModerate]

As the old saying goes . . . "Follow the money . . .'

(Hopefully, none of this reflects negatively on other [proposed developments] which might possibly involve the invention of a whole new cliché: "Trackback/Backtrack the money . . .")

[Larry OKC]

Congrats to the City for putting it on hold until it is sorted out.

[OKCTalker]

If the company is having problems with their parking meters, can we still buy voting machines from them?

[Larry OKC]

LOL. The only problem I see there is if they shave a "few votes off"

[OKCTalker]

Steve just reported at NewsOK, the fine people at CALE Parking seem to have a propensity towards understatement:

"In the letter, Bonardi acknowledged the replacement of parking meters throughout downtown Chicago “encountered some controversy.”



http://newsok.com/vendor-defends-tra...#ixzz1Vs35uEC0

[Just the facts]

To me the bigger questions is - did the problem get fixed. In the case of Chicago, the answer is yes. Last winter Chicago had one of the worst ice-storms the city has ever seen (Lakeshore Drive was 6 feet deep in ice), and the meters didn't seem to have a problem. Getting your car to the parking space was the problem.

[Larry OKC]

While fixing the "problem" is an obvious concern (indications it was fixed), we do have our share of ice storms so it is a valid concern.

The bigger question is the criminal investigation. Again, wise of the City to put this on hold until it gets sorted out.

[Just the facts]

Yes, the criminal investigation is a big issue. That is why you shouldn't break the law. Even if they did it to get the Portland contract (and I am not saying they did it), it might cost them the contracts in OKC and Minneapolis. And of course, we all know how Chicago operates.