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Parking vandalism compounds parking fee woes on Folly Beach's Washout
By Ken Hawkins on Saturday, 16 July 2011 - 1:40pmWhile West Ashley's Avondale neighborhood has been in the traffic headlines for a lack of parking spaces, Folly Beach has also been getting little love.Only this is not about scarcity, but the city's $1 per hour parking fee that's been made worse... More
Sullivan's Island to consider paid parking
By Ken Hawkins on Monday, 26 July 2010 - 11:14pmAt Tuesday, July 27th's, town meeting Sullivan's Island will consider adding paid parking to the streets popular with beach goers. ABC News 4 has a brief with the meeting time and location. Recently the elite island has received a critical eye for... More
Walking on King Street, man loses key to all of Charleston's parking meters
By Ken Hawkins on Saturday, 24 July 2010 - 1:52pmThanks to a hole in the pants of an employee for Republic Parking, the key to all 1,400 of the City of Charleston's parking meters is out there somewhere.Oops. Check out the video and story at Live 5 News. More
Charleston completes SmartCard parking meter upgrades, does giveaway
By Ken Hawkins on Tuesday, 22 June 2010 - 7:56pmAfter kicking off conversion of the city's coin-fed parking meters to ones equipped with SmartCard readers, as of this month the City of Charleston has converted all 1,840 of its meters. To mark the occasion the city will be giving away 100 of... More
Charleston expanding it 'smart' parking meter program
By Ken Hawkins on Saturday, 20 February 2010 - 8:36amNever overfeed the meter again and never go digging for quarters again. So hails the logic behind the SmartCard parking meter program. And to encourage more adoption of the debit-card like program, the City of Charleston is upgrading its 450... More
The lowdown on Charleston's parking meters
By Ken Hawkins on Tuesday, 12 May 2009 - 7:17pmABC News 4 has some surprisingly useful tips on the city's rules when it comes to parking meters and city garages in downtown Charleston. Read more stories on this subject in our parking topic page. You can save more than a few pennies by getting... More
Smarter parking thanks to Smart Cards
By Geoff Marshall on Tuesday, 17 February 2009 - 12:27pmWe had a brief write-up on the City of Charleston's new SmartCard parking system a couple of weeks ago, but we've been dying to go out and make a video about it ever since. So we sent out our newest face -- Amanda -- to the streets of Charleston to... More
SmartCard parking meters installed downtown
By Charlotte Gutman on Friday, 23 January 2009 - 10:28amThe city of Charleston has recently spent roughly $70,000 replacing old parking meters with "SmartCard meters" that also accept the traditional coin method. These SmartCards can be purchased at the city's Department of Revenue Collections, and they... More
