A man was cut from a car and taken to hospital following a horror crash in Rochdale. Emergency services rushed to Albert Royds Street just before midnight on Saturday (4 March.)
13.02.2023 - 18:04 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Cash-only pay and display parking machines across Tameside are to be upgraded to allow people to pay by card and contactless.
Members of the executive cabinet have agreed to spend £71,450 to upgrade 27 machines at council-owned car parks in the borough in a bid to make them more attractive for visitors and shoppers.
Tameside is the only borough in Greater Manchester where parking machines currently only accept cash.
A pilot of a parking app which was introduced in Ashton-under-Lyne in 2018 was scrapped less than a year later after businesses claimed it had caused the worst drop in town centre trade ‘since the financial crash’.
The council runs 44 car parks across the borough, with 53 pay and display machines.
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However a report to cabinet states that the ‘poor customer experience’ of cash-only machines has a ‘detrimental effect on the borough’s reputation’ and its ability to run an ‘effective business’.
Officers state: “Use of town centres is now returning to pre-pandemic levels. However, our car parks have not kept up-to date with the needs and expectations of residents and business users.
“In particular, it is not currently possible to pay for parking with either contactless payment cards or mobile phones.”
As part of the initial phase of improving infrastructure and operating systems, the council has agreed to upgrade 17 machines, and replace ten as they are too old to be upgraded.
It will still be possible to pay with cash at machines going forward.
The move was welcomed by councillors, who said it would allow shoppers to park more easily and support strategies for the regeneration of the borough’s
A man was cut from a car and taken to hospital following a horror crash in Rochdale. Emergency services rushed to Albert Royds Street just before midnight on Saturday (4 March.)
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