At the 80th Winter Meeting of the US Conference of Mayor the City of Los Angeles receives award of excellence for its public private partnership with San Diego based, IPS Group Inc. that has upgraded traditional parking meters to solar powered parking meters. LA now has the most solar-powered parking meters in the country.
The project has amounted lots of public support and improved in parking/transportation operations. More importantly has generated millions of additional annual revenue for the city and is helping make LA more sustainable. Additionally, the new card and coin solar-powered meters will reduce the need to dispose of 40,000 AA batteries per year.
Mayor Villaraigosa told the US Conference of Mayors that “By reusing our existing poles and using clean solar power, these new Coin and Card meters are a win-win for customers, the city, and the environment.”
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