The first automobiles start appearing on the streets of Williamsport.
Garage owners ask for a city ordinance prohibiting all night parking. This may have been the first attempt to regulate parking in the City of Williamsport.
Robert Eyerman~ former president of the Wyoming Valley Chamber of Commerce spoke to the Young Men's Business Club in Williamsport and spoke of the desirability of having parking meters in the downtown. He said the system has worked well in Wilkes-Barre and has increased the number of parking spots available to shoppers and realized a profit of $2,842 for 1938 and 1939.
Paid parking meters are used in downtown Williamsport for the first time. There were 366 parking meters installed in the downtown area. Harry Giles of Montoursville became the first person to be fined $1 for parking after his time expired on his meter and oddly enough he was issued a ticket with a designation of Number 1.
The Williamsport Parking Authority was formally organized. Its first five members were: George L. Stearns, 2nd , John Whiting, Lewis W. Bluemle, Benjamin Pulizzi and J. Wesley Edwards. The forming ofthe Parking Authority came at the urging of downtown merchants for off street parking. The Authority's working capitol was raised by issuing bonds.
The Williamsport Parking Authority opened its first parking lots under the old Market Street Bridge, near Mulberry Street.
By this time the Parking Authority operated lots on Pine Street with 69 parking spaces, Market Street North with 75 spaces, West Fourth Street with 72 spaces, Hepburn Street with 32 spaces, Market Street at Fifth Street with 23 spaces, Mulberry Street at the Pennsylvania Railroad, 17 spaces, Pine Street West with 35 spaces, Laurel and North Streets, 75, West Third Street, 46 spaces and the old Franklin School with 40.
The New Mid-Town Parking Deck opens
A 90-day experiment with two hour free parking downtown begins
The new two hour free parking downtown is made "permanent" with a $10 fine for violation of the two hour parking.
Two hour free parking in downtown Williamsport is discontinued
Approval is given for the construction of a new seven story parking deck that will have about 500 parking spaces. The new deck will be located on the south side of West Third Street, across from the site of the new Trade and Transit Centre.
The downtown parking deck is officially opened concurrently with the new Trade and Transit Centre. The new parking deck cost $13.2 million.
Williamsport City Council passes on first reading, 5-2, an ordinance that provides for more green space in downtown parking lots. This ordinance came at the request of the city's Shade Tree Commission.
Williamsport City Council formally approves an ordinance that requires an area of 51 feet by 9 feet of greenery such as hedges or trees be provided for every 18 parking slots.
Transition to all electronic on and off street parking meters completed.
The Williamsport Parking Authority website is officially launched.