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 Metric - The Choice of Scotland

For over 20 years Metric Parking have been supplying pay & display parking machines north of the border. Of the 19 Scottish local authorities currently using pay & display machines,17 of them are Metric customers with over 1,500 Metric pay & display parking machines on their streets and in their car parks.

 

The City of Stirling uses solar powered Metric machines, the largest number in Scotland, while the granite city of Aberdeen relies on mains powered machines which work reliably in the varying weather conditions on the coast. Not to be outdone, Dundee has some of the oldest Metric pay and display on-street parking machines still operating in Britain. The Autoslots in its city centre are more than twenty years of age - and still going strong!

 

The Autoslot and the Accent have served Scotland well and now the latest Aura machine is being specified by an ever increasing number of local authorities who recognise the benefits of its most modern state-of-the-art technology. “We are most impressed with the features and capabilities of the Metric Aura,” said Dundee’s Senior Parking Officer, Kenneth Kidd.

 

“Although it is relatively new to our streets, it is performing to the highest standards and symbolises the council’s desire to further develop high technology in its parking both on and off street.”

 

Tom Porteous using an Aura machine on the Scottish Coast   

In Fife, Metric provide the service for 119 pay & display Accent machines which has long been the council’s preferred machine due to its reliability over many years, and another 16 Accents are due to be installed in April.

 

Aberdeen City Council has the largest number of Metric machines currently 615 throughout their 17 parking zones. Said Paul Silver, Senior Technical Operative, “I have been pleased with the support we have received over the years from the local service engineers.” A number of the machines are networked through Metric’s ASLAN Back Office system and Paul would like to see more come on stream. “The ASLAN system assists our servicing of parking machines with so many of them located well outside the city centre.”

 

Tom Porteous who has been with Metric for 12 years, said “Metric is proud to have played such a major part in Scottish pay & display parking.”