City standards committee chair, Councillor Kim Marx, said parking meters helped with parking space turn over, which benefited local businesses.
“Our message to motorists is simple; if you don’t do the wrong thing, you won’t pay a parking fine,” she said.
I mean you can’t really argue with that, can you?
Nearly 50 million a year in revenue. That’ll give
GladysAnnastasia a nice little pay rise. Maybe she can do a renovation on her sunshine beach holiday home.Why is Gladys stealing Queensland Government and Brisbane City Council revenue?
I’m tired. Nice catch. Fixed that.
It’s actually mostly (if not entirely) BCC responsible for most parking fines. I only included Queensland Government there as a “just in case” some of them were police-issued infringements. But re-reading the article, I note:
So even if there are some police-issued fines, the headline of the article is entirely about money going to BCC’s coffers.