You can now pay for parking with your cell phone at any of the District’s 17,000 parking meters.
But it will cost a little bit extra. Each transaction with the Parkmobile system costs 32 cents, or the equivalent of about 10 minutes of parking in the city’s busiest areas. To use the system, you also will have to pre-register here. More than 30,000 people have already signed up since the program was piloted earlier this year, officials said.
“One of the most common interactions citizens have with local government is when they pay for parking,” Mayor Vincent Gray said Thursday. “We want that to be a positive experience, and that’s why the District – along with a handful of other cities – is leading the way with new technology to improve our parking infrastructure and to reduce our reliance on outdated meters.”
