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Updated: 6:25 PM Jan 5, 2009
Parking Meter Rates Jump In Downtown Lexington
Beginning Monday, get ready to dig a little deeper the next time you park around downtown Lexington. Posted: 9:12 AM Jan 5, 2009Reporter: Janet Kim Email Address: janet.kim@wkyt.com  Downtown Parking Meter Costs Go Up In Lexington |
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Beginning Monday, get ready to dig a little deeper the next time you park around downtown Lexington.
Parking meter prices will go up from 25 cents an hour to a dollar per hour.
It's a 400% jump.
That includes Vine, Main, Short and all intersecting streets.
Some meters in peripheral areas, within a few blocks of downtown, will be at a reduced rate of 50-cents per hour.
Parking authorities say the last rate increase took place in 1983, and they say the turnover in parking spaces will improve flow of new customers for businesses.
But some disagree, including downtown business owners like Merits Furniture Owner Stanley Hitchner who fears the rate increase will deter people from coming downtown.
Parking authorities say the price increase will help pay for improvements in parking like the solar powered Pay & Display meters and parking enforcement.
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This just came to mind as well, we are fortunate enough to live in a city where you can have vehicles and it won't cost you and arm and a leg to park them at your own home(remember in NYC, in the actual city everyone lives in apartments, condo's etc so if you want to own a car, it's just overall more inconvenient which is why I paid 2500 for a parking space) We have public transportation such as cabs and buses and you can also carpool with people you work with.... it may be a minor inconvenience but I promise, it could be much worse.
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Hey it could be worse, in NYC I paid 2500.00 for a year for a parking space! Try to sell the parking spaces in the garages to the folks who work downtown and then anyone who just has to run down to take care of some business can pay the $1 per hour fee.
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Increase it another dollar to pay for the strip club.
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