Saturday November 26, 2005
No parking with RM1 coins
BY K. SUTHAKAR
KUALA TERENGGANU: If you are planning to dispose of your RM1 coins at the last minute by slotting them into parking meters before the Dec 6 deadline, think again. Chances are, it will be your loss.
Some 35,000 Mackay parking meters installed in 20 cities and towns around the peninsula are now being reprogrammed to “reject” the coins.
Although the Mackay meters – which make up 90% of all meters nationwide – will accept the coins, they will not record the parking time despite the Bank Negara announcement that the coins will only cease to be legal tender from Dec 7.
Technicians from Raisevest Sdn Bhd, the supplier of the meters, have been reprogramming them since Nov 15.
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TECHNICIAN AT WORK: Saindin reprogramming the parking meters along Jalan Batas Baru in Kuala Terengganu yesterday. With him is Johari. |
It was up to the local authorities, he added, to notify the public not to slot RM1 coins into the reprogrammed meters.
Nik Haidi said the company’s eight technicians would complete their task before Dec 6.
“We have deployed two teams – one in the east coast and another in the west coast,” he said.
“It only takes five seconds to reprogramme a meter,” Nik Haidi said, adding that the technicians use a cordless device.
Technician Saindin Mat Rifin, 27, was spotted working on the meters along Jalan Batas Baru here yesterday watched by Kuala Terengganu Municipal Council parking attendant Johari Ngah.
Council parking division senior clerk Abdillah Awang Besar said there were 2,570 parking meters in the town.
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