Portland Launches Mobile Parking Payment App, Parking Kitty
The city of Portland, Oregon is changing their parking experience.
Tossing aside the hassles that typically are associated with city parking, Portland has launched Parking Kitty, a mobile payment app powered by passport, the global leader in mobile payments for parking and transit.
The mobile app will also be available within the region at Washington Park and Portland State University.
Parking Kitty is described as a meter in your pocket.
More convenient it is than paying at the meter or worrying if you’ll have time to make it back before the time expires. The app utilizes the industry’s most advanced parking technology, offering parking payment, reminders, and parking extension options to simplify paying for parking.
The app will make itself available at 15,000 parking spaces across the city of Portland.
“We want it to be easy to pay for parking in Portland. We also want it to be fun. Parking Kitty helps us do both. As a mobile app, it makes it convenient for Portlanders and visitors to pay for parking. We chose the name to reflect some of our city’s creativity and hopefully bring a smile to Portland’s drivers,” said Portland Bureau of Transportation Director Leah Treat. “We want it to be simple and efficient to find and pay for parking because well-managed on-street parking is good for drivers, good for business and good for our transportation system.”
“Our goal at Passport is to help our clients take the stress and inefficiency out of parking and transit through our innovative payment platform,” said Bob Youakim, CEO at Passport. “We’re proud to serve and partner with the City of Portland to introduce this new service to their community and create a customized and seamless parking experience.”
The Parking Kitty app is free to download from the App Store and Google Play and parkers can also manage their parking online at parkingkitty.com.