Re: ‘Parking app live' (page 6, The Weekend Sun, October 7).

Once again Tauranga City Council and bureaucrats make a major decision without public consultation. Were the following considered?

Those people who don't have mobile phones. Those who have very basic mobile phones, which only transmit and receive.

Those elderly due to infirmity use walkers. The people in these categories are evidently meant to use the parking buildings. Yeah right! Durham St parking building is 50 per cent taken up with privately leased spaces. The elderly and infirm won't want, or are unable to, traipse from either parking building to shop. Very little thought for the three categories has gone into this system. What is the overall capital cost to TCC ratepayers to install this system? What is gained from it? This won't encourage more people into the CBD.

R Bailey, Papamoa.