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Get those wallets (or cell phones) out when you park, city drivers: While urban Honolulu has offered a modern rarity — free parking — at about 2,200 dysfunctional parking meters for the past nine months, that all ends Monday.
Free parking hadn’t been the objective, but Verizon, the carrier serving Honolulu’s wireless meters, went and upgraded its wireless technology to 4G before the city got around to upgrading its meters. Now that Honolulu has replaced “control heads” at the metered spaces, the city can start raking in payments again — via credit cards, coins, a Park Smarter app and other mobile payment services.
