Case Date:

10/3/2025

Parking meters in this parking lot are not working, i.e., you cannot pay fees using parking meters. A lot of people leave their cars without paying because they see that the meters are defective. Then, it becomes, a classic scam: meters do not work - people have no way to pay - people leave their cars and get a ticket - appeal gets rejected and people have to pay fees. There is a difference between people not paying parking fees and people not being able to pay because the parking equipment was faulty, see the scam scheme above.

Case Date:

10/4/2025

Parking meter at the southern end of these couple of parking spaces did not respond to coins. Fed about a dollar's worth of quarters and it did not add any time or turn green. Credit card worked.

Case Date:

12/31/2017

Meter 7699 did not register deposit of coin.

Case Date:

1/2/2018

my opinion about the parking meters downtown is what I would like to address.I don't like them and think merchants must suffer from lack of business. many times when downtown I leave and go elsewhere due to insufferable parking and difficulty of the meters.

Case Date:

1/4/2018

South College Ave, South of Kirkwood. Meter is frozen. Will not give time for quarters, buttons to add time to credit card unresponsive. Attempted to pay for 1.5 hours of parking.

Case Date:

2/6/2018

Metre outside rainbow bakery, #4TH W 407-B eating change

Case Date:

2/20/2018

A man called the Mayor's Office to alert us to the fact that a young man had pulled the top off of a parking meter at the corner of 4th and Washington in front of 5/3 Bank

Case Date:

2/28/2018

Parking meter #7641, at the corner of Sixth Street and College, did not register the quarters that I put into the meter. It registered only two of my five quarters so I did not get all of the minutes I paid for.

Case Date:

3/16/2018

Yesterday I put money in meter COLS315-B and there was no display and the backlight did not come on. I was not sure if it had actually recorded my putting money in it or not.

Case Date:

3/27/2018

All the parking meters on the west side of Madison are completely defaced - they have black ink covering the display so that you cannot tell if/how much you have paid, and the green tag saying what zone for the mobile app has been ripped off. Is it ok to park there? Will you get a ticket even if you can't use the meter correctly?