Parking meters on Ocean Boulevard (A1A) will soon be phased out. The city is planning a parking meter system conversion to new Pay-N-Display machines. Fourteen pay stations will be installed where customers will receive a receipt to be placed in the driver’s side window. Coins, debit and credit cards will be accepted. Dollar bills will not.
Parking management specialist Scott Aronson said the change will offer various benefits including reduced citations issued in error due to a wrong space number being programmed into the older style meters by customers, and the fact receipts will be automatically printed providing a record of the parking transaction. In the past residents, tourists and visitors to the beach had to plug in their spot number at parking machines or force feed loose change into meters.
Aronson said the city will also release its new Smart Card Program on July 18. The Smart Card is the same size as a debit card or credit card and allows the user to replenish in 25-cent increments. Each “Pay-N-Display” machine will have the capability, thanks to a microchip in the Smart Card, to tell the user how much money is left on their Smart Card.

For more information on “Pay-N-Display” call Scott Aronson at 561-243-7196 or e-mail aronson@ci.delray-beach.fl.us

Pay-N-Display machine in the public parking lot just north of the Delray Marriott.