Funds to fix broken meters budgeted in Ridgewood
Friday August 16, 2013, 1:52 PM
BY DARIUS AMOS
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News
It didn’t matter to Sarah Fortune that Ridgewood is scheduled to purchase nearly $30,000 worth of new electronic parking meter equipment. Her concern Monday morning was that the meter fronting her car’s parking space in the North Walnut Street municipal lot had gone kaput.
The recent retiree from Midland Park deposited three quarters and a nickel into the meter before realizing the device was a malfunctioning unit. The particular meter, in fact, had been out of order for more than one week.
The Ridgewood News office abuts the North Walnut lot, and several of the newspaper’s employees have witnessed an increasing number of driver complaints on non-working meters in recent weeks. Fortune’s bad luck wasn’t the first witnessed at the spot, and that parking stall wasn’t the only one with a broken meter – about an hour earlier, a village employee removed a handwritten “Meter Broken” note from a different machine in the same lot.
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