{"id":534903,"date":"2026-07-20T09:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T09:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/534903\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T09:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T09:25:10","slug":"hutt-city-parking-meters-hit-with-communications-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/534903\/","title":{"rendered":"Hutt City parking meters hit with ‘communications problem’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hutt City Council says a fault with its parking meters has been resolved.<\/p>\n

A nationwide communications issue affected the meters shortly after 10am Monday, the council said.<\/p>\n

The council said parking wardens did not enforce paid parking during the outage.<\/p>\n

But now the problem was fixed, motorists needed to make sure their parking was paid to avoid a ticket.<\/p>\n

On Monday afternoon a spokesperson for technology company Orikan said there had been a “small disruption to the Spark telecommunication’s network that impacted connectivity of a small percentage of our meters”.<\/p>\n

They said the issue was not with the parking meters or supporting software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hutt City Council says a fault with its parking meters has been resolved. A nationwide communications issue…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-534903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}