NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- The New York Department of Transportation announced Monday that crews have made significant progress in repairing municipal parking meters in the city.
Workers were able to reconfigure software on the meters that allow the use of credit card payments.
Over 200 members from multiple agencies have manually repaired each meter.
As of Monday, the DOT says that 9,906 of the City’s 14,000 meters have been repaired, including at all municipal lots and at locations where credit-card use is the highest.
DOT has committed to have all meters Citywide repaired by this Thursday and will have crews continuing to make repairs, finishing up at meters where coins make up the majority of payments.Payments can still be made at all meters by coins or via credit card on the ParkNYC app.
"Thanks to the hard work and dedication of DOT’s parking team, led by the Meter Maintenance team and a core group of Traffic Device Maintainers who spearheaded the effort, we have made big progress over the weekend in restoring the full functioning of the City’s muni-meters," said DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg. "We also deeply thank our sister agencies for aiding in the effort. While this ‘Y2K2X’ software glitch was not of our making, we will continue our round-the-clock efforts to fix all the meters — and we thank the public for their patience."Since last Thursday, card payments at municipal meters had been blocked after software installed in the meters experienced a "Y2K"-like New Year glitch, a problem for which the vendor Parkeon/Flowbird has taken responsibility.
Crews will continue to make repairs through Thursday, finishing up at meters where coins make up the majority of payments.
Drivers who find a non-functioning meter should immediately report it to 311 with the meter number.