A pedestrian walks past parking meters off of Frazier Ave.BY THE NUMBERS* $700,000: Cost of new downtown parking meters* 640: Meters purchased* 60: Percent of city that will get new metersSource: Chattanooga Area Regional Transit Authority
New meters are going up across Chattanooga that should make it more convenient for users to pay for parking.
The new parking meters will take credit cards and eventually also will support a prepurchased card.
“We turned them on Tuesday,” said Tom Dugan, executive director for the Chattanooga Area Regional Transit Authority.
CARTA bought 640 new meters — 40 meters for multispace parking and 600 meters for single-space parking — for $700,000, he said.