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Speaker 1: Now Yesterday on the show, we spoke to the City

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Speaker 1: of Darwin CEO some own saunters about the council's plans

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Speaker 1: to go cashless when it comes to parking in the CBD.

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Speaker 1: New meters are being rolled out with QR codes in

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Speaker 1: addition to the Paysday app, with new technology not compatible

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Speaker 1: with cash payments. The CEO also told us that it's

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Speaker 1: quite costly to collect cash out of those parking meters,

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Speaker 1: so it did get a lot of you quite fired up.

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Speaker 1: A lot of our listeners were quite fired up, saying well,

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Speaker 1: how am mean to pay? I usually pay with cash,

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Speaker 1: Others saying it'll deter them from going into the CBD.

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Speaker 1: Now joining me on the line is the Darwin City

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Speaker 1: Retailers Association General manager, Molly up Still. Good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Molly, Hey Katie, how are really good? Molly?

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Speaker 1: What's been the reaction from retailers to the changeover with

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Speaker 1: these parking machines.

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Speaker 2: To be honest, Katie, I actually haven't had any feedback

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Speaker 2: at all. It's not something means despite.

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Speaker 3: Parking being quite yes this issue amongst everybody, the cashed

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Speaker 3: parking hasn't been anything that we have had any direct

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Speaker 3: complaints about.

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Speaker 2: I did a bit of consultation yesterday afternoon after meeking

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Speaker 2: with you and hearing what your listeners had to say,

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Speaker 2: and it's been a bit of a mixed bag. But

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Speaker 2: I think, you know, this is something that the council

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Speaker 2: is pushing ahead with and while we overwhelmingly support their

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Speaker 2: bigger parking strategy, we think that maybe it could have

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Speaker 2: been a bit better, you know, maybe done in the

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Speaker 2: wet season and in the changeover period it be a

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Speaker 2: free parking until the new machines are in to help

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Speaker 2: people transition to the pay stay up and card only payments,

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Speaker 2: but definitely have to make sure that their support for

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Speaker 2: people who do pay cash on those parking machines. But

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Speaker 2: from what I also understand from counselors that overwhelming bit

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Speaker 2: of feedback and complain if you will that they get

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Speaker 2: is that the cards the machine don't accept card.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, and so the new ones is it only

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Speaker 1: going to be your phone or they will they accept cards?

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Speaker 2: Do you know?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: So the new ones will accept card and you don't

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Speaker 2: have to have a credit card. It's any card. It

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Speaker 2: will accept absolutely any cards, even a debit card. I

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Speaker 2: believe that don't have so just like a key card

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Speaker 2: that doesn't have the tap and go services, so everybody

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Speaker 2: that has a bank account should be able to use it.

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Speaker 2: And also, like if someone has an issue with the

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Speaker 2: Payday app, I know sometimes it can be a bit clunky.

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Speaker 2: Both counsel and the DCRA a more than happy to

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Speaker 2: help people get that app up and running on their

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Speaker 2: phone to make it easier for everybody, because it's as

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Speaker 2: simple as putting a registration details in there and pressing

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Speaker 2: stop and start when you leave.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and look, I don't have an issue with it

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Speaker 1: being you know, on your phone or.

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Speaker 2: On the app.

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Speaker 1: Like to me, that's how I do things these days.

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Speaker 2: But I know for a.

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Speaker 1: Lot of people that are, you know, maybe a little

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Speaker 1: bit older, they may not be as technically savvy and

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Speaker 1: wanting to use the phone or the app.

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Speaker 2: Molly, No, And there is quite a lot of people

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Speaker 2: that don't have the technical abilities. Or I'm just down

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Speaker 2: at Nightcliffe Beach with a two and a half year

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Speaker 2: old that has just caught my attention and now all

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Speaker 2: of a.

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Speaker 3: Sudden wants me that's all right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there are lots of people that don't have apps

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Speaker 2: on their phone or aren't as technologically savvy as the

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Speaker 2: rest of us. But that's where we come in. You know,

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Speaker 2: go to counsel they've offered it to you know, you

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Speaker 2: can go to their head office. You can even come

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Speaker 2: to the DCRA. We'll be more than happy to help

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Speaker 2: people learn how to use the app, learn how to

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Speaker 2: get it on their phone, and help them out where necessary.

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Speaker 2: But we do have to make sure that they're well supported.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, look that is I think that's a good

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Speaker 1: thing to do, is to help people make sure that

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Speaker 1: they are well supported. Do you anticipate that it's going

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Speaker 1: to adversely impact those city retailers in any way?

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Speaker 2: Look, no, I don't think so.

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Speaker 3: And it's nothing again.

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Speaker 2: It's nothing that anyone has come and said, you know,

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Speaker 2: this is going to affect my business because I think

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Speaker 2: the majority of people, the vast majority of people are

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Speaker 2: using the payday app. So you know, that's Council's data,

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Speaker 2: so I guess you should have to trust it. That

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Speaker 2: is the data they're going off to make this decision.

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Speaker 2: So I think most people are using that put that

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Speaker 2: Payday app.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey, how are things going at the moment in

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Speaker 1: the CBD. I know there's been some cruise ship arrivals.

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Speaker 1: Have they been venturing around the city.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so we had the final cruise ship of the season.

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Speaker 2: I think it was last Saturday, and that was for

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Speaker 2: a lot of my retailers the best weekend of the

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Speaker 2: year so far. They were a very deep pocket cruise ship.

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Speaker 2: And so I don't think the next cruise ship the

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Speaker 2: season starts again. I believe at the end of August.

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Speaker 2: Times are tough, though it still goes without saying you

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Speaker 2: know a lot of people are doing it really tough

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Speaker 2: at the moment, and tourist numbers are probably not where

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Speaker 2: a lot of people wanted to see them, but they're

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Speaker 2: coming in. Like I think it's a late caravan season,

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Speaker 2: and you know, we've got all the major events on

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Speaker 2: Carnival starts on Saturday. Don't have Pub Cup, Carnival first

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Speaker 2: race days on Saturday, so we'll see lots of enthusiastic

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Speaker 2: race goers up and you know, our retailers are stocking.

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Speaker 2: You know, they get stuff in just for this period

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Speaker 2: of years, you know, like beautiful stuff at the festival,

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Speaker 2: fascinators for the Cup carnivals, so there's lots of reasons

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Speaker 2: to still come into the city and you know, shop

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Speaker 2: for that outfit in the CBD rather than online. So

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Speaker 2: it's a beautiful spot our CBD and we've got some

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Speaker 2: amazing retailers who you know, shop specifically for their do

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Speaker 2: and audience.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Mollie, very quickly, we've got a few people messaging

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Speaker 1: through saying why.

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Speaker 2: Don't we just let seniors part for free. Well, I

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Speaker 2: think it's probably a question for City of dar and

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Speaker 2: I say that helps our seniors out is you know?

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Speaker 1: It would be nice?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it would be nice. I think so too. You know,

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Speaker 2: they spend a lot of money they've got, you know,

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Speaker 2: unlike myself, no mortgages for the most part, and love

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Speaker 2: to have a cake and a coffee and more people

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Speaker 2: through the CBD. Is never a bad thing, exactly.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 1: Always good to catch up with you, Molly. Thanks so

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Speaker 1: much for your time this morning.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Katie, thank you,