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Councilmember raises concerns over broken parking kiosks and reliance on mobile-payment apps
Summary
Councilmember Christopher Harsh warned that broken parking kiosks and mandatory app-based payments unfairly burden seniors and those without smartphones, and flagged data-breach and privacy risks tied to ParkMobile and vendor Flowbird.
Councilmember Christopher Harsh used the miscellaneous portion of the meeting to press the administration on downtown parking-meter operations and the city's reliance on private mobile-payment platforms.
Harsh described three incidents: (1) kiosks malfunctioning after snow and the cash option being unusable; (2) meter-enforcement officers issuing tickets where cash kiosks were…
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