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General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
(07-25-2017, 04:31 PM)timc Wrote: What do you think about this? And what does it mean for people without smartphones?

Seems fine if annoying to download every municipality's and park's vendor's app just to be able to pay for parking. In this case it's only being used to offer something the city hadn't offered before, so I'm not sure how it could be worse than not using it. If it takes off, presumably an app like this could also support an (expensive) physical pay machine, though it's not clear to me that there's a need to make every parking spot available to the vanishing population of people who drive and don't have internet-enabled smartphones.

That said, I'd much rather prefer a system in which you could pay by tapping in and tapping out with a contactless debit/credit card or a transit farecard.
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RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours - by mpd618 - 07-25-2017, 11:13 PM

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