Downtown will beckon with new meters

GARY LARSON | Olympia • Published November 28, 2012 Modified November 27, 2012

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T his is to express my appreciation to the Olympia mayor and the City Council for recently approving the replacement of the current parking meters downtown. I believe the re-installation of the individual handier “pay” meters will be a major improvement. I look forward to once again in the future being able to access the downtown businesses, which I have refrained from using over the past two years because of the difficulty experienced with the larger, useless meters currently in place.

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