Motorists are ‘being treated like murderers’ over parking, it has been claimed.
Drivers are paying out millions of pounds a year just to park their cars through parking meters and pay-and-display-machines, said the Association of British Drivers.
In London’s Westminster motorists pay £33.3million a year to park their cars.
In Leeds the figure is £14.2million and in Newcastle people are forking out £7.3million.
Edinburgh (£6million) is next up, followed by Birmingham (£6million), Liverpool (£1.9million) and Manchester (£1.8million).
Drivers in Bristol and Wolverhampton have it easy with just £700,000 in each city.
Hugh Bladen, founder of the ABD, said: ‘It is absolute madness. The amount of money taken from motorists for parking in this country is absolutely extraordinary.
‘Motorists are being treated like they’ve committed murder. The revenue being collected goes straight into the coffers.
‘It would be nice to think it is being spent on what is needed, but you only have to look at the state of the roads in this country to see roads are the last thing that money is being spent on.’