Motorists are being used as “cash cows” with parking fines seen as a lucrative source of income for local councils, despite penalties falling, campaigners have claimed. Figures obtained by the Taxpayers’ Alliance (TPA), which campaigns for lower taxes, showed that the amount raised in parking fines dropped by 16 per cent last year. The figures, [...]
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Goodbye to the parking meter
The final coin-operated parking meter has been removed from central London. Westminster council has removed the last functioning meter from Warwick Square – more than 50 years after the machines were first installed in the capital. To mark the occasion the council held a short ceremony with the Lord Mayor of Westminster Cllr Louise Hyams [...]
The Last Days of the Parking Meter
Coin-operated parking meters are to disappear from central London in May. The final five machines will be removed from Warwick Square in Westminster on 11 May, more than 50 years after they were first installed in the borough. The council said the removal of 4,000 machines started in 2007 after motorists began to pay for [...]
