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First Great Western and APCOA (their chosen parking enforcement contractor) have today agreed to introduce telephone payment technology to 63 station car parks across the network between London and Penzance. The project will commence by the end of May this year, and it is intended that most of the selected stations will have the system installed, up and running within six months. RingGo will be deployed as an alternative to the current pay & display arrangements which will remain in the car parks. Spur Solutions will be supplying the handheld equipment which APCOA's Parking Attendants will be using to monitor and enforce parking on the line, and which will integrate with Cobalt's RingGo technology. Commenting, APCOA's managing director Paul Bird said: "This project takes APCOA's culture of innovation to a new level, because it represents real joined-up thinking, management and teamwork between ourselves and our technology suppliers. More important than that, it will really improve parking for First Great Western customers at those stations where it is installed." Echoing those thoughts, Harry Clarke, Commercial Director of Cobalt Telephone Technologies, the company behind RingGo, responded saying: "We are delighted that APCOA has chosen the RingGo phone parking solution in support of First Great Western. The first phase of the rollout, to over 12,000 parking bays, stretches from London to Penzance. The sheer scale makes this by far the most significant deployment of phone-based parking ever undertaken in England. As the recent British Parking Awards made clear APCOA is both bold and innovative. That's clearly what First Great Western liked about APCOA when awarding them the extended parking contract back in January. That's what we like about them too, and we thoroughly look forward to delivering to their promise to First Great Western and their passengers." |
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