Decatur To Put Old Parking Meters Up for Sale
Decatur Metro | July 8, 2014 | 11:35 amAfter a question about feedback regarding the new parking meters around the city at t last night’s Decatur City Commission meeting, City Manager Peggy Merriss mentioned that in response to inquiries as to the fate of the old parking meters, the city will be selling some of them to the general public.
To quote Ms. Merriss “We’ve had a number of inquiries to what we’re going to do…I think these are going to be more conversation pieces.”
Are you planning to buy an old meter?
Maybe the city should hold off and they could be the “Little Free Libraries” of a new Decatur Parking Festival!
Photo courtesy of the City of Decatur website
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maybe they could be painted by individuals / artists and auctioned off?
Cool. Put one in front of my house.
Ooh, and in the back yard. Make the kids pay to park their bikes.
I’d buy one. Make it portable and just transplant it around Atlanta every day and make some $$$.
Which is why I didn’t think the general public could buy these..
Shades of Homer Simpson – “A Test Before Trying” is the tenth episode of The Simpsons’ 24th season. Homer uses a parking meter he found at the dump to fleece unwitting parkers of their quarters.
They’ll end up hanging on the wall of the local TJ Applebees.
We have a TJ Applebees?
Could they be fused together to make more bike rack sculptures to scatter around town?
I want one to put in front of my house for all the people that block by driveway when dropping their kids off at school.
Obviously the left hand didn’t know what the right hand was doing. New meters, which are now old meters,were recently installed in front of the DRC less than 6 months ago. I was interested in this because I thought, how cool the meters were removed from in front of the DRC. Then the new meters appears and now these are obsolete. Duuuhhhh…how much did that cost?
Oh Psshhhaw! This is City of Decatur. If you have to ask how much something costs, move to Postal Decatur!
What about selling them to other cities that might have even older meters? The ones being replaced take credit cards, right? That’s an upgrade for some cities that may only have coin operated ones.
That was my first thought, too.
No credit cards for the old ones. But that reminds me, Lyn Menne also said that credit cards were being used 2:1 compared to cash with the new machines.
Oh, I thought there were card slots that worked in the old ones.
I was recently in downtown Birmingham and there were defunct meters lining every street. I can’t imagine these meters are worth anything. How about using them at DHS for a high school version of “Cool Hand Luke?.
“How about using them at DHS for a high school version of “Cool Hand Luke?.”
Now that I would pay to see. I’d even spring for the eggs.
Luckily no one has tried to remake that movie yet.