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Pay-by-phone parking coming to Nelson in 2019

New equipment is coming in 2019 that will make it possible to pay for parking in Nelson using your phone.

Chief financial officer Colin McClure says a bonus is that you could pay once but move your car during that time and park in a different stall.

It should also reduce the time and money the city spends collecting change from the meters.

But the current meters aren’t going anywhere if you’d rather pay the old-fashioned way.

Greg Nesteroff
Greg Nesteroff
Greg has been working in West Kootenay news media off and on since 1998. When he's not on the air, he's busy writing about local history. He has recently published a book about the man who founded the ghost town of Sandon.

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