As we’ve reported over the past few years, increasing numbers of UK councils are cutting costs by removing pay-and-display parking machines in favour of cashless systems that – in most cases – require you to pay using a phone app.
That’s fine if you have a modern smartphone and you’re comfortable using apps for online payments. But what if you have a so-called ‘dumb’ phone? Or if your phone is ‘smart’, but is too old to use current parking apps?
We think it’s unfair that councils are effectively forcing drivers to fork out hundreds of pounds on a new smartphone just to park their car, but we can’t see them reversing their decision –
