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    Fight Back wrote:
    kkj wrote:
    graham_Seagull wrote:
    All roads north of the City centre up to the Davigdor Road area have the following charges;
    £3.50 for 1 hour
    £6.00 for 2 hours
    £10.00 for 4 hours.

    On top of needing to move my car around (as its 18 months for a permit, which I accepted as the charges were already high but manageable over a weekend when I park) it now costs the following for 9.00am - 8.00pm (11 hours);
    £10.00 x 2 (to get me 8 hours)
    £6.00 (to get me 2 hours)
    £3.50 (to get me the last hour)

    That adds up to £29.50 for a days parking which I cant afford so I'm having to move to a flat in a different parking zone.

    Is this what they had in mind?
    Try this:

    Pay for one-hours parking at £3.50.

    When this runs out, you will incur a lower-level contravention penalty charge of £50. Pay within 14 days and its reduced to £25. You save a pound a day and don't have to keep moving your car!

    Brilliant.

    Or is that not what they had in mind either?
    Fantastic !!!! This clearly shows Jason Kitcat and his band of merry idiots have absolutely NO idea how to run a city. Please bring on the next local elections where they will get slaughtered !!!!
    The parking fine has gone up as well to £35 :-("
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Brighton and Hove council rules out future parking price increase

Council chiefs have ruled out increasing parking prices in the centre of Brighton and Hove for the “foreseeable future”.

As it looks to balance the books in the face of Government cuts, Brighton and Hove City Council introduced a raft of changes to parking tariffs on April 1.

The local authority claims it simplifies the system while pushing people towards using more sustainable means of transport and reducing congestion.

But dozens of people have written to The Argus claiming it is damaging business and the city’s reputation as a tourist destination.

Tara Parker, who owns a business in Seven Dials, Brighton, said: “What idiot at the council thought this was a good idea and that it would bring more money into the council’s coffers?

“With all the increases in park- ing charges Brighton will become a ghost town.

“Will the last person to leave please turn the lights off.”

Ian Davey, the local authority’s transport cabinet member, said: “There are currently too many cars in traffic jams or driving around looking for spaces.

“Nobody benefits from the con- gestion or pollution – it’s bad for visitors and bad for business.

“Where there were a myriad of tariffs that have evolved over many years, on-street parking prices have now been simplified into a high tariff zone in central areas and a low tariff zone in outer areas.

“We are reviewing how this works, and may make some adjust- ments to the scheme. It is not our intention to increase prices in the high tariff zone in the foreseeable future.”

The local authority said while it’s more expensive to park on the seafront, prices have been frozen or kept low at the edge of the city centre and the western and eastern ends of the seafront.

It added some car parks, including Black Rock, Regency, London Road, Trafalgar Street and Norton Road, are also cheaper for some tariffs to encourage more people to use them.

Any income to the council from parking is ring-fenced to improve transport in the city, such as funding concessionary bus fares for older people, building cycle lanes or developing 20mph zones.

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