Parking meters could soon be removed downtown
KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL - A parking meter on West Lloyd Street at Main Street in Shenandoah on March 22, 2023. This meter is one of the operable mechanical meters in town.
SHENANDOAH – It’s been many years since a borough meter officer made the rounds in the central business district, and, soon, those meters could be removed.
The matter came up at Monday’s borough council meeting.
Many of the meters, which line Main Street and, typically, the first block of each cross street, are in disrepair or outright gone.
Mike Uholik suggested the removal.
“The meters in town, they’re obsolete,” Uholik told council. “Why don’t you just take them down?”
Council previously approved the removal of the meters in 2018, which was opposed at the time by the Greater Shenandoah Area Chamber of Commerce and never moved forward.
“It doesn’t look good for the main street,” Uholik said of the meter conditions.
Councilman Leo Pietkiewicz said if anyone is interested in removing the meters and poles for scrap and properly filling the holes with concrete, they should contact the borough.
The meters downtown are a hodgepodge of working and broken digital and mechanical meters. In some cases, just the pole or the hole it once occupied remain.
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