Newport's Card Accepting Parking Machines Frustrate Motorists

Sean Flynn reports for the Newport Daily News about citizen frustrations with a recently deployed card accepting pay-and-display parking system in Newport, RI. "It's a nightmare," said Richard Korn, co-owner of Yesterday's and The Place restaurants in Washington Square. "People have been getting tickets for the past eight weeks because the machine doesn't work. It's made for so many irate customers and angry visitors to Newport. It's unbelievable." [Editor's note: Sounds like the first law of payment systems - consumer convenience - has been violated with this system!]