COIN TOSS - 25 new hi-tech CBD parking meters ‘by the end of this year’

SOON to become a relic of the past in the CBD are the old-style coin-operated parking meters, with the Southern Grampians Shire Council voting on Wednesday to replace 204 of them with 25 ‘Pay by Plate’ machines that would serve several parking bays each. Photo: GLENN GUY.

By Mark Rabich

October 13, 2023 | 4:00 PM

PAID parking in the Hamilton CBD is one step closer to going hi-tech with the Southern Grampians Shire Council further specifying details for upcoming changes to street metering at Wednesday evening’s meeting held in Penshurst.

Wellbeing, Planning and Regulation director, Rory Neeson, opened the discussion and said that Council had adopted the Hamilton CBD (Central Business District) Masterplan in 2020 which in part covered the broader future of parking meters in the CBD.