Village Council formally approved the use of Smartphones as a means of paying for parking
Ridgewood allows use of phones to pay for parking
MARCH 13, 2015 LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2015, 1:21 AM
BY CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
RIDGEWOOD — Depending on your technological prowess, paying for parking in the village is about to get either a whole lot easier or much more complicated.
The council formally approved this week an amendment to Ridgewood’s code to include smartphones as a means for paying for time at parking meters downtown.
Ridgewood officials have been mulling a possible contract with Atlanta’s Parkmobile for weeks. Users of the company’s app can pay for spaces with their phones.
Village officials are still in negotiations with Parkmobile, but say that if all goes well, the system could be in place by May.
Officials said stickers with Parkmobile’s information would be affixed to each meter. They will still accept quarters.
The app is already in use in Glen Rock, Fair Lawn and Newark, and links directly to a credit card, debit card or PayPal account.
https://www.northjersey.com/news/counciloks-use-of-phones-at-meters-1.1288381
This should be interesting.
I thought they would not accept quarters. I thought the whole idea was to get rid of the village having to manage the quarters.
Maybe that is the case , no quarters, at Park & Ride,
Let the resident tracking begin…
Love your conspiracy theories 9:20. Welcome to 2015. Here’s my conspiracy theory: We lost almost a million bucks because of Village employees stealing quarters from under the Village’s nose, and 9:20 knew about it because he and others were in on the scam with Tommy Boy.
9:20 am. For you tin-foil hat wearers, I recommend using quarters. I hear the same excuses from the idiots who line-up waiting to get through the bridge and tunnels tolls, while I breeze through with my EZPass.
Isn’t it amazing that the idiots who refuse to use EZPASS and ParkMobile because they don’t want the “government” to know where they’ve been think nothing about leaving their cell phones on at all times?
Names 11:17 since you must have the inside track. Maybe call AG office anonymously and give then the names. Use you burner phone.
Funny (or not so funny) moment from Wednesday night toward the end of the meeting –
A resident recommends that the wording should include one tiny change regarding the $.35 fee. Suggestion is that it should say “not to exceed $.35,” thereby allowing residents to get a possible discount from Park Mobile, Good idea, right, because the price of parking is moving up exponentially as it is. Every little bit helps.
Our esteemed Deputy Mayor jumps right in (grabs the mike and flips off a definite opinion) and says “like most things in life this is probably not going to turn out to be perfect. But let’s not be changing it before we’ve implemented it.” Well, why the heck not change something for the better before it gets signed into law? But, it was not the DM’s idea, so of course he has to disagree with it.
Fast forward on the Ustream a few minutes and suddenly the wording has been changed by Matt Rogers to EXACTLY what the guy had suggested. Why? Because it made sense for the sake of our residents and anyone else who parks in town. And who goes ahead and MAKES THE MOTION for the ammendment? You guessed it, the Deputy Mayor makes the motion to change the wording, exactly what he had opposed a few minutes before.
Is this CIVILITY? How about telling the guy who suggested it that this was a good idea? Oh, no, DM can’t do that because the record will show that it was all Albert’s idea to make this helpful wording change.
Sometimes on Wednesday nights I want to throw my TV out the window.
Thanks for that great post 6:12 very good and spot on with our DM
Boyd Loving is the man.