HONESDALE BOROUGH, PA — After a year and a half of discussion, Honesdale has begun to implement a parking app alongside its existing roster of coin-operated meters.

The borough will use Pango, a parking app that’s currently used in places such as Wilkes-Barre. Stickers announcing the new app have begun to pop up on meters throughout Honesdale’s streets—though as of yet, it’s only a “soft start,” borough council president Pat Resti told the River Reporter.

Currently, the borough is working to finish setting up all that needs to be set up for the app to be in full operation, including bringing in street signs letting people know how to use the app, said Resti. The borough is hoping for the “hard start” on the app to happen by mid-September.

“I think it’s going to be great for the town. It’ll be great for me not using all my quarters all the time,” said Resti.

The app is coming online to a set of streets where many of the existing coin-operated meters are old or out of order.

Over the summer, recognizing that many of the meters were out of order, the borough was not ticketing people for parking at broken meters. That’s going to stay the law of the land through the soft start, said Resti; however, once the borough announces the official launch of the program, the rules will start to become harder.

However, as of now, the borough does not plan to remove the coin-operated meters, he said. He added that there are a lot of older people in town, some of whom may not have phones or know how to use them well, so the borough will keep the meters that are working in operable condition.