About 30,000 extra parking fines were issued to Brisbane motorists in the 2022–23 financial year as parking meters resumed regular operations following the floods and Covid-19 pandemic.

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?

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Although there was an increase in fines in 2022-23, it came after meters were turned off and enforcement scaled back multiple times during the prior financial year because of COVID lockdowns.

    The council also turned off the meters for roughly two months between February and April 2022 as a recovery measure following the pandemic and the south-east Queensland floods.

    Reasonable doubt can include circumstances where the driver has a receipt for attempted parking payment, but did not carry out all the necessary steps to finalise the transaction.

    Australian Crime Commission vehicles or those that are used by the state police, fire, and ambulance services are considered to be exempt from parking fines.

    This is followed by a referral to the council’s disputes commissioner, who can overturn or uphold the decision to issue the fine.

    Over the next financial year, the council has projected its parking fine revenue will reach $48.9 million.

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  • johnthedoe@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    9 months ago

    I guess there’s my answer when I question why not more street parking gets turned into protected bike lanes.

  • makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml
    21·
    10 months ago

    Nearly 50 million a year in revenue. That’ll give Gladys Annastasia a nice little pay rise. Maybe she can do a renovation on her sunshine beach holiday home.

    • ZagorathEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      Why is Gladys stealing Queensland Government and Brisbane City Council revenue?

        • ZagorathEnglish
          4·
          10 months 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.