{"id":51438,"date":"2020-09-22T16:14:05","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T22:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-parking-meters-set-to-be-replaced-by-end-of-2020\/"},"modified":"2020-09-22T22:14:05","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T22:14:05","slug":"durango-parking-meters-set-to-be-replaced-by-end-of-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-parking-meters-set-to-be-replaced-by-end-of-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Durango parking meters set to be replaced by end of 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=0154cda7-9426-4ec0-957f-f81569ba95c3&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"The city of Durango is preparing to replace 828 parking meters, including 455 that do not accept credit cards.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The city of Durango is preparing to replace 828 parking meters, including 455 that do not accept credit cards.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>By the end of 2020, all of the parking meters in the city of Durango will accept credit cards.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, city councilors unanimously approved spending almost $240,000 from the Transportation Services Fund to replace 828 parking meters.<\/p>\n<p>Phase 2 of the downtown parking meter upgrade was scheduled to be completed earlier in 2020, but it was put on hold as a result of COVID-19 budget concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 828 meters that are set to be replaced, 455 of them do not currently accept credit cards. In last week\u2019s meeting, Assistant City Manager Kevin Hall said downtown businesses have requested that all parking meters be upgraded to accept credit cards. Hall also said that historically the city has seen an increase in revenue when a machine is upgraded to accept credit cards.<\/p>\n<p>The 373 meters set to be replaced that already accept credit cards \u201care the oldest meters in the inventory,\u201d Hall wrote in an email to <em>The Durango Herald.<\/em> \u201cIn 2021, these meters are scheduled to become functionally obsolete and need to be upgraded to latest technology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Parking meters generally create between $950,000 and $1 million in revenue. The revenue from the parking meters is used to fund the Parking Division\u2019s operating budget, $750,633 in 2020, and Durango\u2019s transit system.<\/p>\n<p>Within the city of Durango, there are about 1,000 parking meters. Parking meters that are credit card accessible have a monthly $5.50 connectivity fee and a 26-cent transaction fee. However, in a memo to City Council, Hall wrote, \u201cBecause of the increased functionality and popularity of credit card meters, it is anticipated that overall meter revenue on these new meters will increase, partially offsetting the increased service fee costs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:smarvin@durangoherald.com\">smarvin@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>455 meters will soon accept credit cards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[314,1020,28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-51438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-downtown-durango","tag-durango-city-council","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51438"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=51438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}