Parking Charge

That's because the touch screen (at least the one at the multi-story at Castle St) is s**te and takes about 10 touches to register each letter/digit.

well more to the point, because people hadn't got around to registering for online payments

and presumably, now they have.

tim

Barnet Council (and others) use the following automated telephone system to enter the full car number plate for car parks and also on-street parking.

it: "press 1 if you have a blackberry phone, or 2 for all others" me: 2 it: "press the number 2 if the first letter is either A, B or C" it: "press the number 3 if the first letter is either D, E or F" it: "press the number 4 if the first letter is either G, H or I" it: "press the number 5 if the first letter is either J, K or L" it: "press the number 6 if the first letter is either M, N or O" me: 6 it: "press the number 1 if the first letter is M" it: "press the number 2 if the first letter is N" me: 2 it: "you have entered N, press the hash key if correct" me: # it: "press the number 2 if the next letter is either A, B or C" it: "press the number 3 if the first letter is either D, E or F" it: "press the number 4 if .... etc...

Tedious to the extreme, and in a bad mobile phone reception area impossible sometimes to complete.

You can set up an "account" for next visit (never) or install their mobile phone app (also never), but given the experience of such a dumb system I doubt their software chaps are that clever about other things like security.

Voice recognition would have been so much better.

I now go out of my way to find a free spot somewhere else, even if it means a little walk.