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Saturday, April 16, 2005
After the recent issues of Congestion Charges in Edinburgh (fairly soundly rejected by the public) looking at ways to better organise the collection of parking charges has come to the fore.
Interesting to see then, a increasing number of councils adopting "cashless parking". A recent video article on the BBC (no link to article available) detailed a system where a driver's account is activated and deactivated after parking using a mobile phone. No need for cash or ticket machines. Parking Attendants are equipped with a scanner to scan a barcode on the windscreen of each car to ensure that the account has been activated.
On the plus side, you only pay for what you use, being billed by the local council at the end of the month - would save money over the ridiculous system of paying for blocks of 15 minutes as in Edinburgh. Why you can't get the number of minutes you pay for I do not know. Don't believe that the technology isn't available to ensure that if you don't have the correct change, you don't lose out.
Hope more councils take this up.
A bit late, but Martin Little is running the Flora London Marathon tomorrow and should wish to support one of his chosen good causes, visit his London 2005 web page for details. All the best ML, and look out for the wall :-D
.: posted by Ali 12:57 PM
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