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To: Glasgow City Council
GLASGOW PARKING FEES TO RISE 70% in less than 16 months
The parking charges in Glasgow West were introduced in April 2017 now on August 2018 less than 16 months later GCC plan to raise the charges not only on permits but on the meters. Permits will rise from £50 to £85 a rise that equates to 70%. Would you literally without consultation, overnight allow me to raise the cost say of your electricty bill from £1000 to £1700 ? To begin with the regulator OFGEM would have something to say about that.
This is atrocious, immoral and I believe possibly illegal !
This is atrocious, immoral and I believe possibly illegal !
Why is this important?
So we pay car Tax "for road use", we pay Council Tax partly "for road use" and we pay parking fees "for road use." If you cannot understand that motorists are the "Milch Cow" for most councils and most definitely Glasgow City Council then what hope is there ! (this link will give you some insight into what we as motorists are up against - https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/scots-drivers-fill-gaps-in-council-budgets-as-parking-charges-top-70m-1-4729191)
All this nonsense about "oh it's only a tiny rise and in Edinburgh its this, this and the other, who cares what goes on in Edinburgh, we are fighting our own battle right here in Glasgow. Do you not understand what a 70% rise means across the board. Lets put bread, milk, cheese, eggs, flour, potatoes, gas and electricity up 70% overnight and see what happens, I suspect there would be a revolution !
You cannot go on penalising the motorist ad infinitum to fill the coffers of Glasgow City Council !
We will need to resort to a Crowdfunding campaign to take GCC to court if this campaign falls on deaf ears !
P.S The accompanying photo was taken in Bowmont Gardens this Summer at approximately 8.30pm when a flashmob (a regular occurrence) of Parking wardens were disgorged from a minibus, to plaster tickets on mostly permit holding residents, who had parked outside boxes as there is insufficient space here now of an evening since all the squares were painted on the roads.
All this nonsense about "oh it's only a tiny rise and in Edinburgh its this, this and the other, who cares what goes on in Edinburgh, we are fighting our own battle right here in Glasgow. Do you not understand what a 70% rise means across the board. Lets put bread, milk, cheese, eggs, flour, potatoes, gas and electricity up 70% overnight and see what happens, I suspect there would be a revolution !
You cannot go on penalising the motorist ad infinitum to fill the coffers of Glasgow City Council !
We will need to resort to a Crowdfunding campaign to take GCC to court if this campaign falls on deaf ears !
P.S The accompanying photo was taken in Bowmont Gardens this Summer at approximately 8.30pm when a flashmob (a regular occurrence) of Parking wardens were disgorged from a minibus, to plaster tickets on mostly permit holding residents, who had parked outside boxes as there is insufficient space here now of an evening since all the squares were painted on the roads.
