Drivers in Brighton complain about parking more than any other UK city
Parking is a big problem in the UK with drivers paying £1.2 billion annually in parking fines across the country.
Drivers have been using search engine Google to share their parking complaints online
Drivers in Brighton make more parking complaints online than anywhere in the UK according to new research.
Data from Co-Wheels Car Club has revealed that people in the seaside resort made 3,576 Google searches complaining about parking per 100k of the population, as frustrated drivers go online to vent their parking rage.
The South East and South West regions of England dominated the rankings with a number of cities appearing high in the table such as Bournemouth and Bristol.
Top ten UK cities for parking complaints per 100k population
- Brighton and Hove: 3,576 searches
- Bournemouth: 2,953 searches
- Bristol: 2,234
- Edinburgh: 2,151 searches
- Manchester: 1,962 searches
- Norwich: 1,571 searches
- Reading: 1,570 searches
- Leeds: 1,531 searches
- London: 1,508 searches
- Portsmouth: 1,483 searches
Parking is a big problem in the UK with drivers paying £1.2 billion annually in parking fines across the country.
Drivers in London claim to receive the most tickets and pay the most in fines, at £284 million per year.
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