This will bring in the tourists!----With higher parking fines looming, Detroit plans to spend up to $8 million repairing broken meters

With higher parking fines looming, Detroit plans to spend up to $8 million repairing broken meters | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:
If you’ve parked in downtown Detroit often enough, you’ve probably pulled up to a broken meter.
City officials estimate that about half of the 3,404 parking meters are broken at any given time.
But that could change soon:
The city is considering spending up to $8 million to fix the meters.
The repairs are a high priority since the city announced this month thattickets for an expired meter would more than double, to $45.