Brisbane parking meters to be permanently cashless

Parking meters in Brisbane will be permanently cashless from February 22 with the council adopting a ban enacted temporarily last year during the pandemic lockdown.

At Tuesday’s council meeting, infrastructure committee chairman David McLachlan said the council made all 960 parking meters contactless, accepting only card or app-based payments, during the lockdown in March last year.

Cash payments returned briefly after the lockdown, but Cr McLachlan said only a small number of cash payments were made with most…