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By James Peters

Pay Parking

Public invited to help choose new pay parking provider for downtown Kamloops

Jan 7, 2026 | 4:16 PM

KAMLOOPS — The City of Kamloops is upgrading its pay parking infrastructure and is turning to its residents to help choose a new provider.

In a news release, the city says it wants to replace its existing kiosk system with “a modern solution that delivers improved reliability, enhanced customer convenience, and technological integration, including mobile payments, contactless options, and license plate-based enforcement.”

The city operates about 800 on-street spaces covered by pay parking downtown, in addition to nine off-street lots, pay-by-space lots at the Tournament Capital Centre and parkades on Seymour and Lansdowne Streets.

To gather the public’s feedback on the options being considered, demonstration sessions will be held on two evenings next week — Tuesday (Jan. 13) at the Sandman Centre’s Kia Lounge and Wednesday (Jan. 14) at McArthur Island’s Sports Centre Lounge.

The demonstrations will run from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. each evening. Residents are invited to drop in any time during those intervals and take a few minutes to try out the options before providing feedback.

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The city hopes to choose its new provider by the end of February and expects to have a new system installed and operational by spring 2026.

“As the community continues to grow, there is an increasing demand for curb space and parking turnover,” a statement from the city said. “Improving our infrastructure provides the opportunity to expand paid parking, which supports a growing city by improving access to businesses and services while encouraging efficient use of limited parking resources.”

Kamloops council raised a few concerns about the proposed price increases and other changes to the city’s parking management plan at a Committee of the Whole meeting last August.

The proposed changes came about following a lengthy parking management study that began in 2019, and some initial findings were presented in Oct. 2023.