More ways to pay for parking are being introduced to 18 car parks across the High Peak through the installation of new user-friendly energy-efficient pay and display machines.
High Peak Borough Council has appointed Flowbird Smart City UK Limited to provide 27 new machines to replace the existing machines, which are at the end of their useful life.
Current machines only take coins, but customers will now be able to pay with coins or contactless via credit or debit cards and phone payment apps. The PaybyPhone option will continue to operate for drivers who prefer to pay that way.
Councillor Damien Greenhalgh, Deputy Leader and Executive Councillor for Regeneration, Tourism and Leisure, said: “These new machines, in addition to the popular PaybyPhone option, will enable people to pay for parking in ways which suit them rather than having to find coins – an improvement many people have requested and which, I’m sure, will be very welcome!”
The new machines are dual power models which means they will operate on solar generated power backed up by mains power connections when required.
To make them easy to use function buttons and payment areas will be brightly coloured to assist visually impaired and physically disabled people.
Work to install the new machines will begin later this year.
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