Pay for your car parking by text in London
Alex of SendMyTxt was in Golden Square, Soho, London over the weekend and came across this sign demonstrating that you can now pay for your parking via text message.
This, I think, is a wickedly good application. Whatever your perspective on having to pay silly prices for car parking, I’m sure you’ll agree, the convenience of being able to tap a few buttons on your phone rocks.
There are actually quite a few button taps required to register your credit or debit card — but once you’ve done that, you simply need to type the bay number, duration in minutes and your three digit CCV2 card number and whack it to the long number.
I’ve done this before with parking at my local station so I think I’d certainly do it with a parking bay in the city.
One imagines that — FINALLY — you won’t ever be nailed for getting to the meter 2 minutes late only to find a fine strapped to your windscreen — because this system should alert you and ask if you’d like to extend your parking by text. Theoretically, anyway.
Anyone tried it?
