PITTSBURGH (AP) — Some Pittsburgh motorists can say goodbye to jingly pockets.
The Pittsburgh Parking Authority awarded a $7 million contract Thursday to a Florida company to install 500 new electronic meters covering about 3,500 spaces.
The new meters will accept credit cards along with coins and use driver-entered license plate numbers to keep track of who has time left.
Parking Authority Executive Director David Onorato said the new meters in the downtown, South Side and Oakland neighborhoods are a pilot program that could expand to the rest of the city. The new meters should be installed by August.
The city currently has 60 electronic meters but they require a receipt to be displayed on the parked car's dashboard. The rest of the city's paid spaces are marked by single-space coin-op meters.
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