By my reckoning, Brighton and Hove City Council is already making a profit from 139,000 parking tickets with about a third paying £60 and the rest £30.
Set-up cost, £2.5 million; running cost, £3 million; total, £5.5 million; income, about £5.5 million; profit, about £50,000.
If the same number of tickets is issued in the coming year, profit will be in excess of £2.5 million.
Add to this the £1 million that 12,500 residents' parking permits earn the council each year plus all those £3 waivers it is issuing and it should soon be able to afford to build lots of car parks to encourage back the tourists so vital to the well-being of this city who are staying away in droves.
-R Wallace, Charlotte Street, Brighton
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