Heads up fines bring handed out like candy on Charlotte St today.
4 bikes in a row pinged here for $125.00 each.
Any idea when this parking spot became metered?
Posted by hihereiamtoo
Heads up fines bring handed out like candy on Charlotte St today.
4 bikes in a row pinged here for $125.00 each.
Any idea when this parking spot became metered?
Posted by hihereiamtoo
17 Comments
Council guy realised he wasn’t going to make his quota this month.
Pay by app. Maybe they paid by app.
> Any idea when this parking spot became metered?
If it’s like the other ones in Charlotte St, then December I think.
That is, December **2024**…
Edit: digging deeper based on the meter ID, metering of that particular set of spots [appears to date from September 2025](https://site.cellopark.com.au/info/prices/charlotte-st-brisbane-city-meter-id-4124/). So, still 6~7 months ago?
When it became paid (11.5 per day) I took out a contracted motorcycle parking spot in a commercial lockup underground garage and pay less (4.5 per day) for a far better parking spot.
I get they have responded to the supply crunch with the abundance of scooters and moto commuters such as myself but at they should at least make it fairly priced.
I’ve routinely seen motorbike riders mention this happening at once-free parking spots for a few years now as reported on here
Charlotte St is a bit of a mixture of Free All-Day, 2hr Free and Metered Spaces.
I don’t park in the CBD often, but I always check the signs as the zones do shift.
[Here is the BCC map that helps to find Motorcycle parking , but I don’t know how up to date it is:](https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?ll=-27.471047464229667%2C153.0276682653078&z=18&mid=1FLQ_Oxn0x3Y1Nv19Y7kCvYD_zkE1UWg)
This happened to me in the CBD near eagle street, no information there was a change, or announcement of a change. They told me I should have looked at the sign.
The silly think is the BCC website says a lot of these are free still
Sea You Next Tuesday bcc
Charging motorbike parking should be criminal. A Melbourne rider 🙂
lol
I enjoy that they’ve attached the fines in different ways to each bike
But it’s ok to run an offshore company who’s business model is dumping escooters on streets with no genuine control to ensure they aren’t blocking pedestrians and helmets that end up scattered across the city.
That explains why I’ve seen these bays partially empty from about 6-9mths ago. I even asked a colleague if they had noticed. It use to be packed but now you’ll find plenty of free bays throughout the day.
Thats the dodgiest revanue raising scheme ive seen in a while, like people are gonna look for yellow take, its so dystopian “you didnt pay us so we are going to squeeze you for money, what do you mean you didnt see our sticker? It was on the other side of that caution tape”
People ride a bike to save space and lower emissions and congestion.
Rewarded with removing the major incentive of free city parking.
If you’re forced to pay parking you may as-well do it from the comfort of your dry climate controlled car.
I don’t get it.
I can recommend complaining to BCC on this. It likely won’t change anything but at least someone will need to take the time to deal with the complaint.
They have removed almost all of the Alice St parking and rely on pumping up the number of free parks that aren’t in reasonable walking distance of the CBD.
Be sure to mention Cellopark’s predatory pricing model, horrible app and data breaches.