Parking Fines

Over the past few years, many councils have been struggling to find money in ordered to pay for services in various diffrent places. Theese services can be anything from librarys to recycling tips; everything we take for granted on a regular basis. The councils have made a regime where people who want to park their car have to buy a ticket- the average price is around £1 an hour. However, if you forget to buy a ticket, you are forced to pay an immense £60 parking fine! Recent studies suggest that the vast majority of the public consider this as an outrage. Is it exceptable to take huge chunks of our income for a one off mistake? As i read futher, i will briefly show the parking debt in comparison to other fines, as well as how we could resolve this matter.

The fine average fine for possesion of cannibis is proven to be around £80, which is a miniscule £20 diffrence from the parking fine. Seeing as owning cannibis is illegial and and making a accidental mistake isn't, why should it be acceptable to give us a £60 fine? You could argue that this is where the council get most of their money to pay towards council cservies, but in the long run they could just as easily earn their profit another way whilst reducing the expense of parking fines. Did you know that motorists have to pay around 30million A month, and in westminster 1269 parking fines are issued everyday? The extravagncy is incredibly out of proportion and utterly insane, due to most other  fines are charged for either a criminal offence or dangerous actions (e.g driving without a license) etc. Parking without a ticket is not a crimal offence, nor is it dangerous. Not to mention, what if you dont have any spare capacity in your income? For instance, after their parking fine they might not have the flexibility to afford even a meal for their children.

Many hospitals have ignored the fact that the goverment reccomended to stop giving out parking charges for long term patients. My personal experience shows that people like my mother who has to pay £10 every week she wants to park at saint gorges hospital for chemotherapy. At the end she will have paid at least £200 on parking tickets, another , financial burden for her. Or imagain a scenario, where a elderly women faints at a checkout and as a result she is few minutes over her parking ticket. She then finds an envelope on her window screen, and it demands £60 of her low pention. How would that make YOU feel?

In conclusion, I believe that the council should comprimise with the public by reducing the fine to £20, that way people might feel less obliged to pay for a ticket if they are relitavely wealthy, or if they forget to buy one they aware that the consequenses are minor. The council would probably earn just as much, and the nation would be relieved to no longer have to worry as much about their parking fines. People who are genunly want to buy a ticket will do so, but the ones who are intentionaly trying to evade parking fines will also continue; this time the council will pick up their revenue in fines,from the dishonest people who really deserve it.

Stop using poor motorists as an eternal source of income!