Pay For Parking In Town Square Starting Monday 3/10

>As Rockville Central readers know, paid parking in Town Square is set to begin on Monday, March 10. Just the other day I got a helpful little brochure in the mail from the City that had a nifty map of all the parking in and around Our Fair City’s downtown.

Never one to pass up an opportunity to fiddle around online, I made a map of some of the key parking spots and here it is.

On the map, green lots are City-owned, and blue lots are owned by other folks. (To orient you, the pink blobs are important features of Town Square like the Library and the court yard).

On the City lots, here are the details:

• Open 24 Hours, no overnight parking
• $1 per hour
• Payment required 7a-7p M-F
• Free Sa/Su

Now, you may have noticed all those machines that look like ATM’s but really say there for parking in the Town Square garages. Using them is easy — just think of them as parking meters. It may take some getting used to, but you can do it.

Here’s how they work:

Basic steps:
1) Enter you space number
2) Choose “Purchase Ticket”
3) Select “Hourly”
4) Enter the number of hours you plan to park
5) Pay by cash or credit card (V/MC)
6) Take your receipt with you

Then, to add time, at any pay station:
1) Enter your space number
2) Select “Add More Time”
3) Enter Add Time Number from your receipt (you kept it, right?)
4) Enter number of hours of extra time you plan to park
5) Pay by cash or credit card (V/MC)
6) Take your receipt with you

Parking is free at the Library, but you have to go about it in two steps like this:
1) Enter your space number
2) Choose “Purchase Ticket”
3) Select “Library 15 min Free”
4) Take receipt with you to the library
5) Go to the Library pay station
6) Enter your space number
7) Choose “Purchase Ticket”
Select option for free parking, up to 2 hours at a time
9) Follow directions on the pay station
10) Take your receipt with you

Why the Library rigmarole? First, it makes it simple to just get 15 minutes free if you need to drop off a book or some such. The second step (the two-hour-increment part) is to make it so that people don’t abuse the free parking.

Questions? Here’s the City’s Town Square Parking Page.

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