Whanganui parking meters 'regularly breaking down' and set for upgrade 21 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM 2 minutes to read Whanganui's parking meters have brought in close to $200,000 in the last six months alone. Photo / File Whanganui District Council has carried out 1657 repairs to parking meters in the past 18 months and says plans to upgrade the ageing infrastructure are under way. "The current parking meters require a lot of maintenance and are regularly breaking down, this is the reason for their impending replacement," council's compliance operations manager Warrick Zander said. The figure was released to the Chronicle under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act with the council saying the repair requests were for varying reasons.