Quote:City parking fee rise
July 1, 2010
MELBOURNE City Council will, from today, begin rolling out new $4 per hour parking charges, which will apply in most instances until after 7.30pm.
The time extension will net about $1.5 million extra in fees for the city council's coffers.
Also going up are the government's fine for not carrying a valid transport ticket, to $176, and for having your feet on the seats in a train, tram or bus, also to $176.
More than 12,000 people were fined in the financial year just ended for having their feet on seats on public transport, and at least 134,000 were fined for not having a valid ticket, according to the Department of Transport.
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I loathe parking fees and parking fines, especially unexpected ones (obvious that i recently got a parking fine? 8:30 at night ...damn signs are illegible at 8:30 of the post meridian).
Soon they can do away with taxation and just having parking fines!!!!
I have no idea what is going on with me and parking fines but i parked at the St Kilda sea baths just a few hours ago and got a ticket while going to buy a parking ticket not twenty metres away... i couldn't help fuming at the inspector and the inspector said that i should thank him 'cause he said he would remove the ticket from the system.
That is disgraceful!!! <img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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Yeah I have also read somewhere that they are paying a hefty price to drive to the CBD with a new survey revealing Melbourne ranks third most expensive for city parking in the world.