Ireen Lizewski

Review of Parkmobile, LLC

This parking system should be challenged through t...

This parking system should be challenged through the courts as it erodes basic constitutional protections. Similar to cashless businesses, forcing someone to download an app or call (and pay a $6 setup fee) is de facto discriminatory to several protected classes (the elderly, the disabled, lower-income families, which in some communities are immigrants or members of varied racial classes). It also negatively affects those who are unable to afford phones/credit cards. Moreover, no one should be forced to have a phone on them at all times, which this system presupposes.

Caveat emptor for communities who chose to enact this system. You re doing so at the cost of your communities right of privacy and to be free from discrimination. If I, a technologically savvy millennial living in major cities, was completely confounded by being forced to download an app to park in a small town that I rarely visit, how do you think grandma or someone who doesn t have a credit card is going to navigate/feel? This feels like profiteering for boroughs/cities and Park Mobile rather than a system that provides true utility.