New downtown development plan calls for significant overhaul of urban core, reducing surface parking
Two more streets, hundreds of new parking spaces, thousands of more residents.
It’s the future envisioned in Moncton’s new downtown development plan presented to city council this week.
The Downtown Core Community Improvement Plan imagines a denser urban centre.
The broad goal: boost population by fostering redevelopment of surface parking lots.
Moncton Mayor Dawn Arnold said the city expects the new downtown events centre and a redesigned Downing Street will spur development.
“I ask you to walk down Downing Street and then look west,” Arnold said. “You can really see it. You can really visualize what’s possible here.”
The plan will be a guide for city staff and developers over the next two to three decades.
Developed by Trace Planning and Design, the document examines 119 acres (more than 7½ hectares) in the downtown bounded by Queen, Foundry, and King streets and the Petitcodiac River.
Anne Poirier Basque, executive director of Downtown Moncton Centre-ville Inc., said the plan’s call for about 1,300 more residential units is achievable.
“We need to have more residents in our downtown to support a lot of the services and developments proposed here,” she said.
A new public street would cut through this parking lot under the downtown redevelopment plan. (Shane Magee/CBC)
New streets
The plan calls for two new streets.
The first would run south of Main Street from the CN rail line east to Downing Street, breaking up large city blocks. The second would be added south of the Rogers Call Centre building linking Robinson and Westmorland streets.
The city would need to buy land for the streets.
Jim Scott of Trace said the new streets will add…
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Amano McGann Reports Exceptional Dealer Sales Growth
October 3, 2017 – Minneapolis, MN – Amano McGann, Inc., the leading provider of Parking Access and Revenue Control Systems (PARCS) in North America, is pleased to report that the Amano McGann dealers are having a banner year. They have experienced tremendous growth during these first three quarters of the year and with the close of September we are posting better than a 45% increase year to date versus the same period last year. In fact, August was the best month of dealer sales in the history of the company!
This year we formed new bonds, expanded existing partnerships and made organizational changes to improve our focus and emphasis on servicing and supporting our customers and our dealers. We want to extend our gratitude for making 2017 a great year.
About Amano McGann
Amano McGann is a parking and security technology company headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The next-generation products Amano McGann offers allow their clients to effectively manage on and off-street parking operations as well as monitor and secure their facilities.
As a member of the Amano Group, a worldwide organization with annual revenues in excess of $1 billion, they are global leaders in the manufacturing and distribution of hardware and software solutions for the parking industry. Amano McGann produces and distributes equipment and software in and from their United States-based manufacturing facility. With an extensive branch and authorized dealer network, they offer a high level of service and experience to cater to its customers parking needs. For more information about Amano McGann’s integrated solutions visit www.amanomcgann.com.
CBC Alberta @ Noon | Wednesday, April 12
Episode: we ask for your thoughts about parking enforcement; and we talk about the future of electric cars.
Link to: http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/podcasts/calgwildrose_20170412_29235.mp3
CBC News Edmonton AM | April 12, 2017
CBC’s Mark Connolly interviews Liz Wolfson, CFO for Clancy Systems International, Inc. and Carole Whitehorne, Executive Director, Canadian Parking Association.
A Commemorative $10 Bank Note
Today, the Bank of Canada unveiled a commemorative $10 bank note to celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary of Confederation.
The Canada 150 bank note celebrates Confederation with a unique design depicting our history, our culture and our land. This commemorative note will be available to Canadians through their financial institutions starting in June and will circulate along with the existing $10 note.
This commemorative note has some new security features and others that are the same as the current Polymer series notes. These features make the note easy to check and difficult to counterfeit.
Visit the Bank’s website for educational tools to help you recognize this historic addition to Canada’s polymer notes.
Produced in limited quantity, commemorative notes are designed to mark historic milestones. Since this commemorative note will be issued in relatively small numbers and may be retained by Canadians, its volume and time in circulation may be limited.
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Ty Stafford joins Impark from Securitas USA , Inc., a security services company. He led a network of 80 field offices and 14,000 employees as President of the South Region. His progressive leadership in driving profitable growth, implementing strategic solutions, and enhancing customer service solidified their position as the market leader. Ty will be relocating to Chattanooga, TN with his wife Lisa and their son, Cole.
Henrik Slipsager, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Impark said, “We would like to take this opportunity to thank Allan for his tremendous commitment over the past years. Under Allan’s leadership the organization doubled in size, and achieved a strategic expansion of its U.S. footprint. We also welcome Ty to Impark. Ty is an experienced senior level manager with a track record of success in the facilities management business through his role at Securitas. His experience positions him well to lead Impark through its next phase of growth.”
Mr. Stafford stated, “I’m thrilled to be joining the Impark family and very honored to be leading such a talented team. I see a lot of parallels between security and parking services, so I’m looking forward to collaborating on best practices to drive new services, connect deeper with our valued clients and leverage technology to improve the company’s agility.”
Imperial Parking Corporation (Impark), with U.S. headquarters in New Jersey and corporate headquarters in Vancouver, B.C. , Canada , is one of the largest parking management companies in North America with approximately 3,400 locations, and over 9,000 employees.
Now you can pay for parking with PayPal on the Green P mobile app
Toronto, December 19, 2016 – The Toronto Parking Authority is pleased to announce that the Green P Mobile App payment option is now available on all Toronto streets.
Completed ahead of schedule, all pay and display machines across Toronto now have a 4-digit location ID visible on the machines that customers can use to pay for their parking session with the Green P app.
The mobile pay feature of the app gives customers the option to pay for their parking session using their smartphone, delivers reminders before parking sessions expire, and gives customers the ability to extend their parking sessions remotely.
For even further convenience, the Green P app now includes the option of using PayPal to pay for a parking session.
“PayPal is a leading digital payments provider in Canada and we are excited to have them on board as a Green P App partner,” said Lorne Persiko, Toronto Parking Authority President. “We are constantly looking for ways to improve the parking experience for our customers. Creating partnerships with great brands like PayPal adds even more convenience to the app, and is something we will continue to do.”
“Mobile payments have become popular across Canada. One in four transactions that PayPal processes is through a mobile device. Just in time for the busy holiday season, we are delighted to help Torontonians and visitors pay for street parking from their smartphones,” said Paul Parisi, General Manager, PayPal Canada.
A GfK* study in February found that PayPal was the most popular mobile payment platform, with a majority (65%) of Canadians reporting they have used it to pay for online purchases last year. Besides using their online balance, PayPal users can pay for street parking from their bank accounts, credit cards or Visa debit…
NEW GLASGOW, NOVA SCOTIA–(Marketwired – Aug. 15, 2016) – J.J. MacKay Canada Limited (MacKay Meters), a recognized world leader in the manufacturing and development of parking control products, continues to strengthen its Intellectual Property portfolio with the issuance of U.S. Patent Number 9,406,056 titled “Parking Meter with Contactless Payment”, on August 2, 2016.
This new US patent relates to parking meters and in particular, to parking meters having contactless payment options and follows closely behind two Canadian patents (CA 2,773,250 and CA 2,870,544) issued on June 28, 2016 that also relate to parking meters with contactless payment. The above noted patents represent just a small portion of MacKay’s extensive Patent/IP portfolio which includes utility patents, patent applications, design patents, and industrial design registrations, and trademarks filed in the USA, Canada and internationally.
“The issuance of this latest patent is proof of our continued commitment to providing leading edge technology to our customers and meeting the demands of both the ever-changing payment and parking industries.” said Adrian O’Neil, Chief Technology Officer.
James MacKay, Vice President of Sales, added, “The addition of contactless payment to our parking meters was an easy decision. The payment landscape is moving very quickly towards contactless payments, especially for small value transactions, and MacKay Meters is excited to be able to offer this payment option.”
About MacKay Meters
For more than fifty years, and with over 500,000 meters sold, MacKay Meters has provided customers worldwide with innovative parking systems including quality single and multi-space parking meters. Parking meters manufactured by MacKay are among the most technologically advanced in the world. MacKay was the first parking meter manufacturer to produce a fully electronic parking meter in 1988, the first to achieve ISO Certification 9001: 2008 in 1993, FCC Certification in 2011 and the first to achieve EMV L1 in 2012.
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Ticketless parking has become the next stage in the evolution of parking management & revenue capture solutions, with firms around the globe trying their hand at the tech. Initially, ticketless parking aimed to minimize installation & maintenance costs, hedge against complications and frustrations, and reduce the number of staff members required to service the system. However, these goals have become the baseline expectation of the 21st century system. Ticketless, touchless parking is now held to new standards of excellence in the realms of accessibility, efficiency, and intuitive user interface. Enter ZipBy: the ‘VIP’ mobile application & parking management ecosystem.
A subsidiary of TMA Group of Companies Limited, ZipBy is an integrated mobile application & management software designed to provide touchless access control for all parking environments internationally. Through the use of unobtrusive technology, ZipBy can be integrated into any existing Parking System with additional modules related to Pre-Booking, Scan to Pay, Session Transfer, and various other customer-based functions. ZipBy allows users to enter, exit, and pay for parking in a completely touchless, ticketless, and hands-free environment.
Through the mobile application, available for free download via App Store & Google Play, users are prompted to enter their billing & credit card information upon initial profile registration. The user’s mobile device acts as a universal access pass, allowing him to bring that access to any vehicle, and eliminating the need for any license plate registration.
The mobile app runs ‘silently’ in the background with very little battery demand, and therefore does not require the user to manually open the application. The device is recognized using ZipBy’s Bluetooth-based sensory system when drivers approach the ZipBy gate. When the driver approaches the gate and the profile is recognized, the gate opens automatically within seconds. The interaction is entirely hands-free. Upon exiting the garage, the user is again…
