Public Safety
$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.