The city will buy about two dozen on-street, multi-space parking meters to replace existing parking meters downtown.
City Council is expected to approve a bond ordinance next week that will fund the $215,000 purchase of 25 pay stations and $12,000 consulting contract, among other initiatives related to parking.
The city will buy the StradaPAL Rapide on-street multi-space parking meters and back-office software management system from Flowbird Urban Intelligence to replace existing parking meters. Each StradaPAL is expected to replace about eight to 10 parking meters currently on the street.
The measure (O-09-19) was introduced at the governing body’s April 8 regular meeting. A public hearing and final adoption is scheduled to take place during City Council’s next regular meeting, scheduled for Monday at 7 p.m.
The $750,000 bond ordinance also will include funding for a new entry system to the parking deck on Lewis Street, according to Redevelopment Agency Executive Director Robert Landolfi.
The governing body also is expected to award a $12,000 contract to TimHaahs & Associates for “parking consulting services related to evaluation, specification and installation” of the new multi-space pay stations for on-street, downtown parking. The firm outlined its proposal in a March 19 letter to Landolfi, following a meeting with the administration.
Rahway has about 200 on-street parking spaces throughout the city “serving downtown patrons and visitors.” The existing antiquated parking meters suffer a high failure and will removed and replaced with multi-space pay stations to “enhance parking operations efficiency, user convenience, and system reliability.”
In January, City Council awarded a $10,000 contract to TimHaahs & Associates for “Phase One Parking Equipment Assessment Services.”
Before dissolving at the end of 2018, the Parking Authority awarded a $40,000 contract to CME Associates for professional engineering services for a downtown Rahway parking study. During the Redevelopment Agency’s last meeting, on April 3, Division of Planning Director and Deputy Redevelopment Agency Director Cynthia Solomon told commissioners that the parking study was “coming along” with the hope that it would be completed by the end of the month (April).
