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Sept. 27, 1951
Nebraska City will launch an experiment next week with its first pay parking lot when meters are set up on city property at Eighth Street and Central Avenue.
Installing of the meter poles will start Saturday with Clifford Rakes doing the work for the Duncan Meter Corporation. The city will install the heads.
The lot, with a parking charge of five cents for two hours, probably will go into operation immediately afterward. Twenty-seven meters are to be installed in the lot and on the west side of Eighth Street adjoining the lot.
Since this lot and street now are filled daily with persons who work in the neighborhood, these cars are expected to be well scattered over into the residential area when the meters are installed.
All-day parkers usually are allergic to meters and, if Nebrska City had meter enforcement, there would be a limit of time that a car could park.
Curbstone legal “experts” are wondering if enforcement of the Eighth Street lot meters would be legally possible, if anyone should want to take a test case into court. An effort was made in the last legislature to pass a bill giving cities the right to establish municipal parking lots. The bill was defeated. Presumably cities do not now have the right to operate fee parking lots.
Sept. 27, 1951
Nebraska City will launch an experiment next week with its first pay parking lot when meters are set up on city property at Eighth Street and Central Avenue.
Installing of the meter poles will start Saturday with Clifford Rakes doing the work for the Duncan Meter Corporation. The city will install the heads.
The lot, with a parking charge of five cents for two hours, probably will go into operation immediately afterward. Twenty-seven meters are to be installed in the lot and on the west side of Eighth Street adjoining the lot.
Since this lot and street now are filled daily with persons who work in the neighborhood, these cars are expected to be well scattered over into the residential area when the meters are installed.
All-day parkers usually are allergic to meters and, if Nebrska City had meter enforcement, there would be a limit of time that a car could park.
Curbstone legal “experts” are wondering if enforcement of the Eighth Street lot meters would be legally possible, if anyone should want to take a test case into court. An effort was made in the last legislature to pass a bill giving cities the right to establish municipal parking lots. The bill was defeated. Presumably cities do not now have the right to operate fee parking lots.
