Broken Muni-Meters

When the roll-out of muni-meters began last year in the neighborhood, some people complained about the more annoying aspects of them: the slip of paper can blow across your dashboard and end up hidden when you close the door, the fact that the hulking machines are a bit ugly, and the inconvenience of heading to another machine when the closest one is broken.

On Wednesday (and possibly yesterday, when the sign above was still up), not one but two muni-meters on Cortelyou Road were not working properly. According to the handwritten note someone taped to one, they weren’t taking coins, and they had no paper.

Makes us miss the simple “fail” alert on the old meters.