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?

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        1 year ago

        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:

        with the city council issuing almost 170,000 parking fines over a 12-month period

        So even if there are some police-issued fines, the headline of the article is entirely about money going to BCC’s coffers.