So, as I mentioned in a separate thread earlier today, my city (Hi, #Regina !) has announced that you won't be able to use coins/cash to pay at parking meters for onstreet #parking, starting ... this Sunday.

The three options they give for paying will now be:

1) A smartphone app.
2) The smartphone app maker's website.
3) A phone call to the smartphone app maker's telephone service.

All three obviously require a mobile phone and phone plan. The first 2 require a "smartphone" and data plan.

Some of us don't have a mobile #phone. So we're #screwed. And everyone else is also screwed, too, because all 3 of the above options go to the same #company, which is owned by the #Corpay company, based out of Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

So the #municipal #government is saying "You have to give your personal information, including *your current location*, to an #American company".

Brilliant, no notes. Perfect timing what with the #USA going full-fascist, too.

#YQR #SK #parking #ParkingMeter #fascism #fascist #privacy #NoNotes

New upload available as art prints in my FAA shop gallery: Happy parking meters - Quebec, Canada. This is one of my first photos taken with my first DSLR camera in 2008 :)

https://travelwaysart.com/featured/happy-parking-meters-quebec-canada-tatiana-travelways.html

#parkingmeter #springvibes🌸 #québec #canada🇨🇦 #travelphotography #artprintsforsale #giftideas

Maynard, MA - July 4, 2024.

#streetPhotography #parkingMeter #downtown #photography

@norberteder möchte #Langzeit in der 24. Woche der #52WochenFotoChallenge

24/52 Long Term (Parking)
For some reason, I put the long exposure aside at once. I had some (serious) ideas in my head. But as I was strolling around the city today for another photo challenge involving color, my color magnetic eye cought this one. Well I immediately replaced all the serious stuff with a little fooling around.

#parkingMeter #button #city #urbanLiving #photography #darktable #paperg

Citizens of #Chicago,

You could destroy every single #parkingMeter and tell the jackasses they never existed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDx6no-7HZE

Hey, #ValeriePlante! Haven't you damaged downtown enough already?

«Beginning Nov. 15, #ParkingMeter hours will be extended in 5 sectors of #Downtown in an effort to “optimize on-street parking management in the city centre and support commercial vitality and mobility in this key area,” the City of #Montreal announced Friday.
Motorists in the targeted sectors will have to pay for metered parking between 8 a.m. and 11 p.m. weekdays and from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturdays.»

https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/montreal-extends-hours-for-downtown-parking-meters?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1694186328