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  • "The Labour and Co-operative Group are calling on the Green-led council to:

    1) Consider setting up a park and ride system for the city

    2) Hold a review of parking charges in six months to see how hard businesses and tourism are being hit by rises in parking charges

    3) Replace coin-only parking meters with ones that take debit cards and payment by phone, and which give change

    4) Pledge to freeze parking charges for 18 months, and then only increase fees by inflation

    5) Introduce special offers and parking charge holidays for off peak times, key events and shopping periods"
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The Greens broke their parking promise, so will they look at a park and ride scheme now?

IT IS interesting to note Green cabinet member Councillor Ian Davey says, “It is not our intention to increase parking prices in the high tariff zone in the foreseeable future” (The Argus, April 19).

When asked at a Brighton and Hove City Council meeting on October 20 last year if the Green administration would be proposing “significant increases to car parking charges in the budget”, Coun Davey replied, “No, we are not proposing significant increases.” Could this be the same Coun Davey?

As the letters page in The Argus on the same day showed, the Greens went back on that promise in a big way, with massive increases in permit, pay and display and traders’ parking fees now in force.

Businesses and tourism are being hit hard.

Can we trust the Greens not to go back on their word again, and will they now agree to look at Labour’s call for a park and ride scheme for Brighton and Hove?

Pete Gillman, Hythe Road, Brighton

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