Free parking if you can not pay the ticket with cash – Il Tirreno

PISA. Do you want to pay the ticket of parking and the parking meter does not have the Pos to swipe credit and debit cards? You can park for free. It is not a benevolent concession for the parking company to eliminate the nuisance of having to keep in your pocket coins ready to use. It is a legal requirement, to equip the electronic payment system, the columns in the areas along the Blue stalls, for which companies must adapt the rest.

The formal departure dates from July 1, although in Italian legislation, awaiting the decrees, is not considered mandatory.

The good news for motorists are two: it introduces the convenience of pay for my ticket with a magnetic card and, in the absence of the Pos, the fine can be undone.

Between Pisa and Waterfront parking meters managed by Pisamo are 309, supplied by Parkeon Bologna who has been asked to install the devices to swipe credit and debit cards. By the end of the month at least 185 points will be equipped with the Pos at an estimated cost of Pisamo of about 220 thousand.

“The goal is to act quickly because we were unprepared for the entry into force of this obligation – explains the sole director of Pisamo, Fabrizio Cerri -. We contracted the company that deals with the provision of equipment. You update the old columns in operation and future of the new instruments already supplied with the inclusion of pos. It will be interesting to see, statistically, how they will use cash to pay for the ticket. “

According to the rule from July 1 it must also be possible to pay for parking at parking meters with ATMs and cards credit. If the unit is not equipped with Pos is not a motorist’s problem, but who, a public body or dealer, manages parking areas. The new provision opens the front on possible cases of litigation. In fact, if a motorist is not the ticket because maybe the Pos not working the assessing officer may not know the reason because it was not exposed coupon puts. Leave the minutes under the windshield wiper and then will be the justice of the peace to clarify matters. However, it remains to be seen how, in front of the justice of the peace, we can then show that they have only had cash in his wallet, and even a few coins to pay. The obbligarietà of Pos has been fixed by the law of 2016 Stability with which has been imposed on the municipalities to adapt to the pay parking lasting control devices to allow payments by debit and credit cards. Now the news is handled with the

technological adjustments. And, in the near future, it is likely that a magnetic card, ticket and blue stalls will become the subject of appeals from those who will argue that the Pos not working and who will repeat that there is no evidence to prove it.

Peter Barghigiani

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