Western Extension Zone closure date
Welcome to the '
The program is
designed to automatically alert you when you enter the congestion zone and
allows you to pay the congestion charge easily by text message thereby saving
you from the very expensive £50 fines if you forget to pay.
It also keeps a
log of your entries into the congestion zone and tells you how far you are from
the congestion zone at any one time.
You can inform it
whether or not you are a registered resident within the zone and it will tell
you the date you have paid the charge up to taking into account any weekends,
bank holidays and free charge periods.
(If you require a
Bluetooth GPS Receiver and / or a Pocket PC, then www.magicgadgetz.co.uk can provide
them for you at a very reasonable price.)
Click on the website links below and save the files
onto your Pocket PC and then click on each file to install it:
Click on
'Start'->'Programs'->'CC Auto Pay' to start the program after it has been
installed.
The first screen
to appear will be a request to license the trial version of the program which
you can do by going to http://www.wabridge.co.uk/cc_auto_pay/license
The GPS Setup
screen will then appear. Ensure that your Bluetooth GPS Device is turned on and
click the 'Discover' button. Then click on your GPS Device in the left hand
list and then the resulting gps service in the right hand list. (This only
needs to be done once the first time the program is started).
(If your Pocket PC
has an inbuilt GPS receiver which you wish to use or you wish to share the GPS
data with another application then tick the 'Use GPSGate' box – see GPSGate
below for further details).
GPS data
containing your current position and how far you are away from the congestion
zone and whether you are within the charging hours will then appear in the
'Main' screen and be refreshed every second.
The program will
inform you when you enter the congestion charging zone within the charging
hours and prompt you to send a text message to pay for the congestion charge.
To do this, click on the 'Send Text Msg…' button. The 'Send Text Msg' screen
will appear. Ensure that your mobile phone is Bluetooth discoverable and click
on the 'Link to Phone' button. Then click on the name of you phone in the list
and 'Connected' should then appear below the list once the program has paired
with your phone. (The first time for security purposes your mobile phone may
ask you whether you wish to accept a connection with the Pocket PC and prompt
you for a common pairing number which you should also enter in the Pocket PC
screen.)
Then provided you
have already registered your mobile phone with Transport for
To inform the
program that the congestion charge has been paid (whether by text message or by
any other means) click on the 'Charge Paid' check box so it is ticked. The
'Paid Until' date will then appear below.
If you a resident
within the congestion zone (and have notified Transport for
To enter the date
after which the Western Extension zone is closed click on 'Options' and enter
the date in the box at the top of the screen. At the time the program was
written the date had not been stated by the Mayor of London although the
intention for sometime in the Spring of 2010 had been declared. An estimated
date of 04/04/2010 has been entered which can be changed accordingly.
To view the
entries you have made into the congestion zone click on the 'View Entries'
button. You will see the date and time as well as the latitude and longitude of
the entry and whether you have paid for it or not. You can mark an entry as
paid or clear a payment from the log by clicking on the appropriate button. You
can also click on the 'Remove Entry' button to remove an entry from the log
provided the program has been licensed.
GPSGate is a
program provided by a third party company (franson.com) that allows one GPS
connection to be shared by different applications (for instance this program
and a satellite navigation program). It is also able to pick up any inbuilt GPS
connection on your Pocket PC. If this is a requirement for you then tick the
'use GPS Gate' box in the 'GPS setup' screen after first ensuring that you have
installed the optional GPSGate program (item number 4 in the installation
instructions above). GPSGate will work for free for two weeks after which a
'gpsgate express license code' is required which can be obtained from www.franson.com .
You can download
and try this program for free but after five entries into the congestion zone a
licence code is required to unlock the program.
The license code
costs just £19.99 which is less than half the £50 fine you receive
for forgetting to pay the congestion charge just once.
To obtain the
license code click on the 'Buy Now' button below and your payment will be made
securely via PayPal.
The license code will be automatically emailed
to you and / or you can retrieve the license code by entering your email
address in the box below.
If you have any questions
then please contact ccautopay@wabridge.co.uk