New Rules For On-Street Parking in Center City

by KYW's Mike Dunn

Citing the booming nightlife of Center City, the Philadelphia Parking Authority is revamping its on-street parking rules downtown, and in many cases that means you must now feed the meter well past normal business hours. 

The Parking Authority is now revising its rules block by block in Center City, often extending the hours for which parking is regulated. Spokesperson Linda Miller says restaurants and businesses that are staying open later want these changes to encourage more turnover at the meters:

“Because they’re finding that as their hours are extending, and people are staying out longer, they (the businesses) want to have a way (for customers) to park. And if your regulations end at a certain time, that turnover is not taking place.”

So that means on some blocks where parking was unregulated after 6pm, you may now or soon have to feed the meter until 10pm. Miller insists the goal is consistency throughout Center City, though she admits many more quarters will pour into the Authority’s piggy bank.