NPDC is replacing its ageing parking meters in New Plymouth’s city centre with 100 new units offering a wider range of payment options.
The replacement was approved as part of our recent 10-year Plan (2024-2034), however a decision to lease rather than buy the units has seen the approved $2m budget reduced, saving ratepayers $1.2m.
NPDC’s Acting Infrastructure Manager Helen Gray says the parking meters have reached the end of their operational life and had become increasingly unreliable, causing frustration for users.
“We’ve made a conscious effort to have a mix of units so that people have a range of payment options - some units will take coins and others electronic payments only.”
At the same time NPDC is replacing the pay by bay system with pay by plate, for all our on-street metered carparks meaning people will enter their vehicle’s number plate rather than the parking bay number.
In addition, people will be able to move to another on-street metered car park without having to pay another fee, providing they still have time left on their paid parking session.
By the numbers:
The parking meters will start being replaced from 17 February and expected to be complete by the end of the month while the Touch N Go machines will be installed between 3-7 March.
Find out more, including how to use the machines on our website.
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Caption: Computer generated graphic on parking meter.
Page last updated: 12:13pm Fri 14 February 2025