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?

  • makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml
    21·
    1 year 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·
      1 year ago

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

        • ZagorathEnglish
          4·
          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.