Will you pay your parking fines now?
Published 1 year, 6 months ago in Making News.An electronic parking detector has turned out to be faulty an up to 1500 people may have been fined incorrectly. A former grey ghost told the Melbourne Leader that Yarra Council’s electronic system was faulty. The full story is here: www.melbourneleader.com.au
Will you be paying your fines now?
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I definately won’t be paying my fines ….. but I don’t have any to pay in the first place. I would rather walk further than have to pay to park.
Parking fines are a waste of money but a necessity to feed greedy councils.
Parking fines revenue, in Glen Eira is expected to increase by $82K to a massive $2,382,000…..hardly an incentive to want to go there! They collected a hefty $2,337,000 in 2006, so obviously they’d got paid their fines!
Stonnington recently “fined” me $107 for parking next to a reserve in an unsealed “car park “reserved for Council Employees Only from Monday to Friday….The only problem for me was that the sign read “No Standing” You know the big S with a red line through it, placed within the boundaries of the library official car park so I thought it referred to the asphalt car park not the gravel area surrounding the sports oval……Money is money, regardless of how it is earned by subtefuge.
I’ve appealed but I will pay if unsuccessful…..I just won’t use their library facilities again……not that they could help me anyhow with a copy of their annual budget!!!
Don’t get me started on parking in Stonnington.
Parking there is an absolute joke- it’s the only municipality where I’ve ever received a parking fine.
I used to work on Chapel St, with my shop backing onto the Coles Car park out the back. Inspectors would sit in their cars, illegally parked mind you, waiting for people to be one minute over the limit before they’d plonk a big fat fine on their window.
In a different car park, I returned to my car less than five minutes past the hour, with a fine.
You’d think with all the revenue the council might actually try and clean up that Chapel St precinct.. some behaviour I witness in 18 months working in retail bordered on … well, I’m not sure. Not like anything I had seen before.
Parking restrictions are designed to deter people from driving to congested areas for one thing. Secondly, they increase the turnover so that others can visit a certain place… etc. Car drivers don’t have rights above everyone else - it should be the opposite. Catch public transport…!
I’ve been told about a new site - www.myfines.com.au
Suppose to be an online management facility for fines and warrants. You can contest fines, challenge a warrant and nominate responsible parties. To be released in January 08.
Sales and service people pay these councils hundreds of thousands of dollar while council members like in St Kilda are jet-setting it overseas when they are need in local matters.
If it was a measured balance then when while revenues go up there should be an increase in available spots.
Would like to see a peaceful protest day and see the local traders take out their pitch forks and linch the local councils over lost business.
I personally have payed thousands of dollars in fines and all though I am of sane mind some day someone is going to loose it. i guess this is why they had to take automatic weapons from us so they can slowly imprison us.
Gattica here we come