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Cash no longer king at Brisbane’s parking meters
Brisbane City Council announced the decision to drop cash payments from parking meters at Tuesday’s full council meeting.
“I am advised that cash payments in Queensland dropped from 35 per cent to 15 per cent across the board,” infrastructure committee chairman David McLachlan told the meeting.
Brisbane’s infrastructure committee chairman, David McLachlan, in the council chambers.Credit:Fairfax Media.
“This steep decline in cash use over recent months is clearly a direct response to the pandemic, and consumers are clearly showing trends to minimise contact with physical currency.”
Last year, council removed cash and coin payments from parking meters to help restrict the spread of COVID-19.
“What this proved to us is that so few…
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