PPP/C says parking meters are an indirect tax

The Parliamentary opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) views the implementation of parking meters in the city as an indirect tax and as an added burden to the consumers.

At its weekly press conference at Freedom House on Tuesday, Member of Parliament, Irfaan Ali said that his party is “not in support of the parking meter contract under the circumstances that there was no study pointing to the economic viability, no public consultation or no concern for what residents or businesses and the general secrecy that surrounds the project.”

An estimated 400 parking meters are expected to be installed along selected streets in the central business district of the capital city of Georgetown.

He questioned how they could have a “75 percent lease and 80 percent revenue on an investment when they (City Council) were carrying most of the operating cost.”