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YOUR VIEWS: on spiralling Leeds parking charges UPDATED JULY 10
LEEDS motorists are not happy that parking charges and costs have more than doubled in the past four years to almost £15m a year.
YOUR VIEWS
It seems that one half of the country is now working to keep the other half in jobs.
Traffic wardens are another example of this - there used to be standard rules about parking - like free parking after six o clock - nowadays you have to really read the small print on the parking charge boards as there are constant charges.
Isn't it our taxes that are paying for car parks to be constructed in the first place?
How can we encourage trade, business or just simple visitors with this?
What happened to all the Supertram monies?
Council - stand up and explain.
Simon H - Rothwell.
Once again LCC ride roughshod over the people they are meant to represent. They seem to think they rule the world but they are just unelected faceless nobodies, how can they keep getting away with it and when are the elected councilors going to stick up for the people for a change.
Ashley Finister
I do not have a car but I do travel on extremely expensive and unreliable public transport. You will not persuade motorists to abandon their cars, whatever the cost of parking, until you offer them something approaching a decent public transport system.
The council should use some of the 15m towards improving the standard of public transport in and around the city.
Sue Lynch
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You want to see the one in the short stay car park at Leeds train station.
After two or three hours it goes up to about 32 an hour or thereabouts.
Brian Longfellow
All parking restrictions were first introduced to improve the flow of traffic so we got parking meters to help keep the centres clear and for safety reasons, fire etc. Now it seems that the parking restrictions are being used to generate revenue for the towns and cities.
T L Leeds
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