Coin-fed meters are largely a thing of the past due to the general decline of cash (and the cost of handling it) but even machines that take card and contactless payments are expensive to service and maintain. And what if drivers don’t have a smartphone, or are not “digital natives”?
“It does rather break my heart how difficult we’ve made it for old people to go about their daily business and how we terrorise them for the crime of not knowing how to download a fucking app,” Paphides tweeted.