The city of Dallas is rolling out a new "parking-meter app" this week, but larger changes could be looming in the future.
"PayByPhone's time has expired in Dallas," according to an article by Robert Wilonsky. "Starting next week, Dallas drivers will need a new app when paying by smartphone at a parking meter: Parkmobile."
According to Wilonsky, the new app works mostly the same as its predecessor, which already had good traction in the Downtown market. According to Wilonsky, PayByPhone was handling some 40,000 park-by-app transactions every month, mostly around Downtown.
The change in app comes as an early indicator of an era of parking management change. "Just last month the council approved a $500,000 study, in partnership with the North Central Texas Council of Governments, that will actually take a long, hard look at downtown's curbs," according to Wilonsky. The study will examine "everything from meter costs and how long you can park there to whether curbs should be parking lanes or bike lanes," adds Wilonsky. "The study will also determine how streets and curbs interface with the Dallas Streetcar and, possibly, the coming second downtown rail line known as D2."
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