The AA has accused local authorities of treating motorists like “lambs to the slaughter”.
They are demanding new laws to cap the number of parking tickets a
council can issue each month, additionally there is concern that motoring fines and parking tickets are being used as a way to raise money rather than encourage good behaviour. For example there have been incidents where people have been given huge fines simply
for putting a zero into a machine instead of an ‘O’ when asked to type
in their registration when buying a ticket.
The RAC last month revealed councils made a whopping £820million “profit” from parking fees and fines in 2016-2017 – up 10 per cent. The Local Government Association claims the so-called parking charge surplus is spent on “essential transport projects”.
But a report earlier this year claimed Britain’s road network was in such a bad state it’s ranked 27th in the world – below Ecuador and Namibia.
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