NYC Rolls Out Upgraded Pay-by-Plate Parking Meters

By FrumNews.com

Washington Heights — The NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) is rolling out its new upgraded parking meters. The first meters were installed last Wednesday at West 166th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue in the frum community of Washington Heights, in Uptown Manhattan.

The meters’ new Pay-by-Plate technology is paperless and will allow users to enter their license plate number instead of displaying a receipt on their vehicle’s dashboard.

According to the DOT, the city’s parking meters print roughly 2,500 miles worth of receipts – enough to stretch from New York City to Los Angeles. New Yorkers will be able to pay the meter at a kiosk or use the ParkNYC app. The upgraded meters will also help provide more short-term parking by improving parking enforcement. The meters will provide real-time data to NYPD traffic enforcement agents to help ensure vehicles don’t overstay the meter.

As previously reported by FrumNews.com, the new parking meters will gradually be upgraded, starting with meters in northern Manhattan and gradually progressing in the rest of Manhattan. The meter upgrades will continue to be installed in the outer boroughs, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island covering the entire New York City, including most of the city’s Frum neighborhoods.

“Pay-by-Plate meters will help us say goodbye to paper receipts on dashboards and say hello to simpler, more efficient parking for busy New Yorkers on the go,” said NYC DOT Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez. “This new technology will not only improve the user experience, but each year it will reduce maintenance costs and save enough paper to stretch from New York City to Los Angeles.”

Once fully installed across all 80,000 of the city’s metered parking spaces, drivers will input their license plate number and state into an on-street parking meter and complete the payment. The process aligns with the payment system already in place via the ParkNYC app. As with the app, transactions from the meters are instantaneously synced with the NYPD parking enforcement systems so that traffic agents can use handheld enforcement devices to easily identify which drivers have paid.

Pay-by-plate parking makes paying for parking easier, with drivers no longer needing to leave paper receipts on their dashboards. Retrofitted meters will include a modern display visible in all conditions that allow for the display of payment information and the entry of license plate information. Meters will have multiple language options and the opportunity for contactless Tap and Go credit card payments.

The Pay-by-Plate upgrade also helps eliminate the illegal practice of transferring parking time to a different zone or vehicle via paper receipt.