Ye Olde Parking Meter?

Municipalities struggle with parking. Some have eliminated parking meters. Pittsburgh, Sewickley, Mt. Lebanon, and Carnegie have installed kiosks instead.

The time for parking meters hasn’t expired, but in many communities, you’ll no longer need coins. In Pittsburgh, Greensburg, Dormont, McKeesport, and others, meters still exist, but thanks to the innovative Pittsburgh-based app company MeterFeeder, payments can be made online.

If you’re looking for the best value for paid street parking, go to Freeport in Armstrong County where the meters are decades old. It will cost a quarter to park your car along Fifth Street for two hours. Parking in Pittsburgh’s Market Square is $4.00 for an hour.

Here’s what we found during a tour of business districts in Greater Pittsburgh.

Parking Meter Rates

City of Pittsburgh, Market Square
1 hour – $4.00 / Minimum payment $1.00

Etna, Butler Street, 1 hour – 25 cents

Sewickley, Municipal lot
1 hour – $1.00, $1.00 per hour for first 3 hours. $2.00 per hour for hours 4 – 8. No meters – Rates posted on kiosk

Bellevue, North Sprague Avenue, 1 hour for 25 cents

Coraopolis, Fifth Avenue – Meters disabled

Dormont, West Liberty Avenue, 20 minutes – 25 cents

Mt. Lebanon,
Pay at kiosk on Washington Road
0-1 hours $0.25/15 minutes, $1/hour, 2nd hour $1.00/15 minutes, $4/hour, 3rd hour $1.50/15 minutes, $6/hour. Meters on side street. Academy Avenue, 5 minutes – 25 cents, 6 minutes – 10 cents, 2 hours for $2.00

Carnegie, 1 hour for 50 cents. Pay at kiosk

Greensburg,
3 minutes – 5 cents. Rate posted on meter. 6 minutes – 10 cents
15 minutes – 25 cents

Wilkinsburg,
30 minutes – 25 cents

Freeport, Fifth Street, 30 minutes – 5 cents, 1 hour – 10 cents, 2 hours – 25 cents

Ford City, Fifth Avenue, 1 hour – 25 cents ($20 fine for expired meter)

Kittanning, Market Street, 30 minutes – 25 cents

Vandergrift, Washington Avenue – Meters disabled
Columbia Avenue, some 1 hour – 25 cents, some 2 hours 25 cents,
24 minutes – 10 cents, 2 minutes – 5 cents

New Kensington, Fifth Avenue – Meters disabled

Latrobe, Main Street, 6 minutes – 5 cents, 12 minutes – 10 cents, 30 minutes – 25 cents

Irwin, Fourth Street, 30 minutes – 25 cents

McKeesport, 1-hour – 25 cents

Braddock, Braddock Avenue Lot, There are meters but cost not visible on meter

Apollo, Downtown parking lot, 1 hour – 25 cents

Butler, 30 minutes for 25 cents

Delmont, No meters seen

Ambridge, No meters seen