I'm in mobile in a big way and mobile payments as well. I've been quite interested in seeing big city parking turn over to mobile payments. Why not? Seems perfect right?
Yes, it can be.
On a recent trip to San Francisco I had a chat with a brilliant young friend of mine, Derek Gillaspy, on his parking woes. He had just driven back in to the city from S.F.O. and was quite concerned how long it was going to take him to locate a parking spot over by the Coit Tower area. Yeap. Quite a problem I'm sure.
Here is a selfie at some of the redwoods downtown:
What I wasn't prepared for was the recent piece on Yahoo about the apps in San Francisco for auctioning traffic spots.
Wow.
Here is the article:
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/san-francisco-government-cracks-down-on-parking-apps-89756826544.html?src=rss
Here is a snippet from that piece:
San Francisco’s new crackdown on a mobile app that allows people to auction off their public parking spots marks yet another clash between innovative technologies and regulators trying to maintain law and order, public safety and a sense of social decorum.
The app, called Monkey Parking, allows a driver who scores a notoriously hard-to-get San Francisco parking spot to sell it for $5, $10, even $20 and then hang out there until the buyer arrives to take his place.
The app, called Monkey Parking, allows a driver who scores a notoriously hard-to-get San Francisco parking spot to sell it for $5, $10, even $20 and then hang out there until the buyer arrives to take his place.
Happy Reading,
J.W. Gant
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