New Brunswick’s HotSpot Eyes Regional Integrated Plan
Phillip Curley envisions a single smartphone app that can assist with transport by various means in cities across Atlantic Canada.
In fact, his company HotSpot Parking is working on such a thing, and took a big step toward it this week when the Moncton city council approved a one-year pilot to let transit users in the city pay for bus tickets with the HotSpot app.
The four-year-old Fredericton company’s app already lets users pay for parking in Charlottetown, Saint John, Fredericton and Moncton. It recently expanded to the Saint John airport, its first airport. And it will apply to provide the parking service in Halifax, now that that city has asked for proposals for online mobile parking payment service.
In an interview last week, Curley spelled out his vision for a pan-Atlantic Canadian mobile product that could help people use different modes of transportation throughout the region…
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