UK Parking Tickets up 500 Percent in Recent Years
It just continues to get more difficult for motorist in the UK. With high gasoline prices, congestion charges, and new registration taxes, car owners are hit up for cash at almost every turn.
Brits who haven’t yet noticed for themselves, should add parking tickets to that list of expenses, as a new report tells that the number of drivers issued parking infractions has risen 500 percent in the last six-years. The UK’s Traffic Penalty Tribunal recently issued its annual report, which told of more than 3.5 million parking tickets issued during the 2006-07 financial year. That number is up from just 800,000 tickets six years ago, and represents more than $428 million worth of fines.
What’s worse, those numbers only account for tickets issued by parking enforcement agents, and not those handed out by police officers. Add in tickets from the cops and the number for last year balloons to over eight million. Keep that meter change handy folks.
+ Motor Authority: Parking tickets rise 500% over five years in UK
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Jeb
Maybe London is trying to annoy its population into decreasing. I would love to live a year or two in the UK, but not in London. Sheesh.
mo
hey, what a great business. that means the government gained a lot and if i am one of the governors, i would've encouraged traffic police to give more tickets to ppl.
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