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$20K Bill to Replace Pay Parking Machines Destroyed at Camera-less Talmadge RR Station

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New Canaan officials on Tuesday gave initial approval for a $19,508 contract to replace the two pay-to-park machines destroyed by thieving vandals (or vandalizing thieves) earlier this month at the Talmadge Hill Railroad Station parking lot. The “Parkeon Strada BNA PAL” machines from Wescor Parking Controls Inc. of Auburn, MA will take about eight to 10 weeks to arrive once approved by town funding bodies, Parking Manager Stacy Miltenberg told members of the New Canaan Board of Selectmen at their regular meeting. One of the machines had its “whole insides taken out” during the vandalism, discovered Sept. 7, Miltenberg said. “They attempted to break into the other machine, but when they found, I think, that there was not much money in the first, they abandoned the idea of breaking totally into the second machine,” she said.

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Pay-to-Park Machines Vandalized at Talmadge Hill Train Station

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New Canaan Police are investigating the destruction of the two pay-to-park machines at Talmadge Hill Train Station, officials say. Serving the upper tier at the mostly permitted commuter parking lot, the twin machines were found destroyed on Sept. 7, New Canaan Police Lt. Jason Ferraro confirmed. The New Canaan Police Department Investigative Section is working on the case, in consultation with the MTA Investigative Section, Ferraro said. One of the machines appears to have been completely gutted.

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Talmadge Hill Station Parking Lot May Be Expanded With 50 More Spaces

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New Canaan is “actively investigating” whether it could expand commuter parking by extending two lots at Talmadge Hill into state-owned property alongside the Merritt Parkway, the town’s highest elected official said Tuesday. According to First Selectman Kevin Moynihan, the town soon will send a letter to the Connecticut Department of Transportation “to ask for their cooperation to let us pave” the areas, which would yield some 50 additional spaces. — A version of this article originally was published by NewCanaanite.com. The project at Talmadge Hill is expected put a dent in waiting lists for parking permits—nearly 600 between the Lumberyard parking lot near New Canaan Railroad Station and Talmadge Hill station, as of last month. According to a draft copy of the letter that’s addressed to DOT Commissioner James Redeker, New Canaan is seeking to expand “modestly” at Talmadge Hill into part of a 300-foot-wide Merritt Parkway easement so that it could gain about 60 more spaces.

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New Canaan Owns the Talmadge Hill Parking Lot and They’re Making It Harder for Darien Commuters

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Saying the Talmadge Hill parking lot can be more effectively used to serve local commuters, the Board of Selectmen on Tuesday voted unanimously to convert 36 daily metered spaces there to permit spaces for New Canaan residents. ___________

— This article originally was published by NewCanaanite.com. ___________

The change is designed to cut into the waitlist at the commuter lot, recently pegged at 115 people, without requiring feasibility studies and construction work, such as expanding the parking levels there north toward the Merritt Parkway. That type of project, if allowed, remains a possibility—likely for some time next year, First Selectman Kevin Moynihan said—but “the cheapest way to increase permit spaces is to take daily fee spots.”

“There is demand for New Canaanites for those Talmadge Hill spots,” Moynihan said at the meeting, held at Town Hall. “When we do have permit spots we oversell by 50 percent, so we have daily fee spots that are sitting empty that we get no revenues from.”

The easternmost/uppermost tier at Talmadge Hill has 36 metered spots and the next level down has 60.