'Unfair' parking fines system should be overhauled - campaigners

[hermes2007]

The parking fines system should be overhauled to stop councils benefiting financially and forcing motorists to pay often trivial fines, a coalition of campaigners has said.

Earlier this month, figures showed that councils raised £1.9 billion in parking fees and fines last year, with some doubling the amount of money they took from drivers.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/7299625/Unfair-parking-fines-system-should-be-overhauled-campaigners.html

Recommendations in the parking manifesto

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/7299633/Recommendations-in-the-parking-manifesto.html

[hermes2007]

Fury in Westbury as council ends free parking subsidy

Nice quotes from Mike (Hawkins):

http://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/latestheadlines/5037141.Fury_in_Westbury_as_council_ends_free_parking_subsidy/

[Yokel1]

Its like most of these things, its just another tax.  What happens to the money behind these things - wherever it goes - seldom ends up back where it was originally levied.

[hermes2007]

Its like most of these things, its just another tax. 

Agree with you completely Yokel. Just like the BBC in my humble opinion. The whole thing about Radio 6 is a diversion to stop the BBC being cut down to a sensible level and the license fee tax being greatly reduced. I don't like the BBC and would sell off most of it. Of course car parking is an unjust tax. As I said above, paying to park on public land to spend money in the shops is, if you think about it, completely unreasonable.