Constable wants tax on parking

Wednesday 19th April 2006, 12:00AM BST.

COMMUTERS could have to pay tax on private parking spaces to fund public transport and cut congestion.

The Constable of St Helier, Simon Crowcroft, wants the ministers for Treasury and Transport to discuss a tax on ‘private non-residential’ parking spaces that would be ring-fenced to help public transport.

He said too many people have private parking in town, either paid for by themselves or their employers, and that those spaces add to the number of cars on the streets, fuelling congestion and making life difficult for the third of the Island’s population that live in town.

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