Car park woes as councils swap coin payment machines for apps

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Withdrawal of coin-operated machines in main UK towns and cities leaves apps as sole optionCoin-operated onstreet parking machines are being decommissioned in favour of smartphone apps, despite complaints by some drivers that parking apps are expensive and unreliable.
The latest area to be hit is Guildford, which, in the past month, has had two-thirds of its town centre parking machines disabled, with notices taped to them advising motorists to pay using the R