On-street parking meters to increase fares

The Transport Advisory Committee has agreed to increase the on-street parking meter rates, Kou Kun Pang, a member of the committee, stated.
According to Kou, the fare for light vehicles will increase to 12 patacas for two-hour limit meters, and to six patacas for one-hour limit meters. Previously, these rates were fixed at six and two patacas respectively.
Meters allowing vehicles to be parked for five hours will only allow from now on a maximum parking period of four hours.
The fare is suggested to increase to three patacas for light vehicles, and to remain unchanged in regard to motorbikes and heavy vehicles.
The two-hour limit meters for motorbikes and heavy vehicles will charge two patacas and ten patacas respectively. Previous values were of one and five patacas respectively.
Kou explained that a few reasons led to the increase in charges. One reason is that the fares had been the same for 30 years.  Another reason is that meters’ fares face a great disparity with those of the parking lots, which could lead drivers being to unwilling park in parking lots, which in turn would place greater pressure on to transportation on roads.