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 read -11 degrees Celsius in the capital, and the temperature felt like -19. It was enough for “around 37% of devices”, or 70 of the 186 terminals spread across the territory, to experience problems caused “in particular” by battery exhaustion.
The City specified that it purchased these devices in 2012 and had already experienced similar breakdowns “during extreme cold in recent years”.
It is therefore impossible to pay for parking at non-functional terminals. The City was working to put the problematic devices back into operation and invited motorists, in the meantime, to pay the fees through the Copilote application.
Quebec has already planned to implement 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,” mentioned the City.
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