A growing number of malls, shopping centres, and office complexes are offering ticketless parking systems in South Africa

RudderVator said:
Or Heaven forbid your parking ticket comes in close proximity of your phone and the ticket turns unreadable and its a whole mission to pay.

Specifically "Karabo" at the Grove Mall. And Menlyn Mall still using these old school rubbish tickets.
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Or those tickets that just have a barcode on and you sit with the ticket after exiting lol.
 
EmmanuelGoldstein said:
That's because the machines are slow and full of crap and often not maintained properly
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Some of those machines tho. Like at Waterfront. Put your card in. Tap to pay. Then you stand around for 10 minutes while the machine does fk knows what.
 
saor said:
Some of those machines tho. Like at Waterfront. Put your card in. Tap to pay. Then you stand around for 10 minutes while the machine does fk knows what.
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Tries to figure out if you are worthy of paying that all so important R8 the mall desperately needs.
 
Foxhound5366 said:
It's basically R11 each time I park at Fourways and Clearwater, and their standard rate is R10 ... so using my advanced high school maths I calculate the convenience costs me R1/session.

Worth it.
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4ways maul has a tap to pay at the exit boom.
 
Kolonnade in Pretoria been ticketless for almost a year now I think.
 
I was very much against paid mall parking. A lot of malls in the US also were free because, ultimately, you're shopping at their shops. But it has changed a lot, and some of the reasons i've been told by people I asked were;
1. Free parking at malls became a dumping ground for cars that people didn't have garage space for, or they go on vacation for a month and leave it there. Stolen cars often taken there to be stripped etc.
2. People living in their cars in the mall parkings (probably not so much an issue here).
3. Mall parking "parties" where people rock -up and use up 50 parking bays for a party and then leave the place looking like a dogs breakfast.

In any case, Admyt is my favorite. I probably use their app for parking 3-4 times a week.
 
Guys be careful of not checking the app.

I tried to leave Blueroute mall using the Woolies QR code but the app said I was in V&A waterfront with an ongoing ticket of R240.

Turns out camera at V&A misread another car's licence plate and showed 2 current instances.!!!

They did credit me and clear the ticket but ensure you have the option of displaying "current parking" on your phone enabled in the app, otherwise you wont know about double parking.
 
Herr der Verboten said:
Let us begin with the question beneath the question: what, precisely, is a parking ticket?

Is it merely a piece of paper, or is it an object upon which we have projected anxiety, memory and the fear of inconvenience?

For years, the motorist has entered the parking area, accepted the small cardboard token and immediately become its servant. One guards it, folds it, misplaces it, searches every pocket, and finally discovers it beneath the seat beside an ancient receipt and a single French fry.

Now the machine observes the number plate, records the arrival and calculates the departure. The ticket disappears, but the obligation remains. One form has passed away; the underlying transaction endures.

This is progress, though not freedom.

The Stoic does not rejoice merely because the paper ticket is gone. He asks whether the new system is just, reliable and governed with restraint. Technology is neither virtuous nor corrupt in itself. Its moral character emerges from how it is designed, how transparently it operates and how fairly it treats those subject to it.

A ticket can be lost by the driver. A number plate can be misread by the machine.

The wise person therefore welcomes convenience without surrendering judgement. Ticketless parking may remove queues, damaged cards and the familiar ritual of inserting the ticket three times before the machine finally accepts it. Yet convenience must not become unquestionable authority.

One should be able to inspect the charge, dispute an error and understand what information has been recorded. A system that recognises your vehicle instantly should also recognise its own mistakes without requiring three emails, two phone calls and a philosophical crisis.

Plato might say the paper ticket was only a shadow on the wall: a visible representation of permission, time and payment. The digital system moves the transaction further from the senses, but not necessarily closer to truth.

We should therefore neither fear the new system nor worship it.

Accept the removal of needless friction. Demand accuracy, fairness and accountability. Retain control over what is yours: your attention, your conduct and your response when the barrier refuses to rise.

The ticket may disappear.

Human frustration, unless disciplined by reason, will remain.
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I've only had 2 issues with admyt, and I've now been using it for quite some time. One time at the waterfront, the boom was open when I left and it didn't read my plate, just kept on saying I'm still at the mall. One message to them and it was sorted. One other time at the Eikestad mall it didn't want to open for me to leave, pressed to help button and off I went, no further issues.

And I've used this feature so many times that I can't even imagine the inconvenience of going to a mall without it.
 
Craig_ said:
I've only had 2 issues with admyt, and I've now been using it for quite some time. One time at the waterfront, the boom was open when I left and it didn't read my plate, just kept on saying I'm still at the mall. One message to them and it was sorted. One other time at the Eikestad mall it didn't want to open for me to leave, pressed to help button and off I went, no further issues.

And I've used this feature so many times that I can't even imagine the inconvenience of going to a mall without it.
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I would say just make it tagless tags - well have phones when we go to these parking lots, and if you don't you probably are not the driver. Therefor apps like admyt are actually amazing, well when it works but it does work 99% of the time.

Hopefully this will cut down on ticket emitters that goes fubar and don't open... but I have my doubts there.
 
A colleague of mine was forced to pay with some app in Cape Town somewhere and he paid and then still could not exit. Pressed the button, they asked him to pay.. he had to pay again for it to "stick". Ridiculous.

Here in GP I have lost my ticked after paying and I just drive to the boom and tell them look, I paid but can't find my ticket. They open the boom.

Worked for Intellipark years ago so could always just tell the operators there that I'm from Intellipark and they would open for me.
 
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