More than a third of Quebec City’s parking terminals were broken on Friday due to their “obsolescence” and “cold weather conditions.”
At 12:30 p.m., the mercury indicated – 11 degrees Celsius in the capital with a felt temperature of – 19. That was all it took for “around 37% of the devices”, or 70 of the 186 terminals spread across the territory of the City are experiencing problems caused “in particular” by battery exhaustion.
The City specifies that it purchased these devices in 2012 and has already experienced similar breakdowns “during extreme cold in recent years”.
It is therefore impossible to pay for parking at the faulty terminals. The City is working to put the problematic devices back into operation and invites motorists, in the meantime, to pay the fees through the Copilote application.
Quebec has already planned the implementation of a new parking terminal management system in a few months, that is to say in the spring. “The new equipment should help reduce the risk of a similar breakdown,” mentions the City.
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