I was told by someone that as there were now NO coins in these phones it had stopped vandals from wrecking them to access the money. Much cheaper than repairing them .
As a disabled person I rely on these special car parks, as the extra room enables me to open the doors wide to give me easier entry and exit the car. That idiot parking as they did would have prevented me from getting into the car. I would have been sorely tempted to bash the car or the driver...
We were in a similar position. We couldn't claim half until a building was erected on the block. It was several years after the fence was erected that we could claim . WA Law.
One memory of Christmas i have, i was about 10, 75 years ago, when it was so wet and cold on Christmas day we had a roaring fire. What is so unusual about this is, it was in summer in Western Australia. Always hot!