{"id":93623,"date":"2018-07-11T13:23:39","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T06:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/parking-meters-adding-insult-to-injury-for-motorists-archive-11-july-1968\/"},"modified":"2018-07-11T15:03:27","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T08:03:27","slug":"parking-meters-adding-insult-to-injury-for-motorists-archive-11-july-1968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/parking-meters-adding-insult-to-injury-for-motorists-archive-11-july-1968\/","title":{"rendered":"Parking meters adding insult to injury for motorists \u2013 archive, 11 July 1968"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n11 July 1968: Revenue is being eaten up by administrative costs rather than subsidising public transportMore than \u00a38,500,000 has been put into parking meters by British motorists since the first scheme was introduced in Westminster in 1958. The Royal Automobile Club, which carried out a survey into the scheme, said yesterday that \u00a36 millions of the takings had been eaten up by overheads and administrative costs. Related: \u2018It’s the worst place to park in the world\u2019 \u2013 why Britain is at war over parking Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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