Amsterdam parking meters card-only

[Puffin13]

Amsterdam parking meters card-only
09 March 2009

Parking meters which accept coins are being phased out in the centre of Amsterdam, the Telegraaf reports.

Within a few months, motorists will have to use credit or direct debit cards to park their cars, by logging in their number plate via a touch screen.

Parking tickets will no longer be issued and traffic wardens will check on a central database whether a space has been paid for.

Amsterdam wants to phase out cash payments because parking meters are often broken into.

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[Kingdoc]

Most of the machines down where i am need a "text" activation (chipnot),& ive not seen very much of the coin machines the last few years come to think of it .

[Pauli Wallnuts]

i drive about once a year to dam, this is gonna make it that much harder, i usually only park for an hour to unload then drive to olympic stadium for p&r. they also done this in westminster and i find that hard to use let alone navigating through a dutch telephone menu

[Clayman]

haha. our mayor sold the parking meters to a private company. the rates are now sky high, more than 4 quarters per hour. even the busiest metered streets now have tons of parking.

on top of that they have a huge problem now with vandalism, as people take their frustrations out on the meters.