Brisbane drivers slapped with $82,000 in fines per day

It can be hard keeping up with all the rules, and it seems drivers in Brisbane clearly aren't.

About $30 million in fines were collected in Brisbane City in the past financial year.

That's more than $82,000 per day over the course of a year – and 2024 is already on track to see even more collected.

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Brisbane City Council denies there are revenue targets to be met but concedes an estimate is listed in the budget.

"We never ever reach that amount," Brisbane City councillor Kim Marx said.

"The reality is, if residents and drivers do the right thing, they don't get fined."

Opposition councillors say there should be more leniency.

"$30 million is a huge amount of money and in the middle of a cost of living crisis, someone gets a fine for parking two wheels up on a gutter and has to pay a couple hundred dollars for that," opposition leader Jarred Cassidy said.

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"They can issue a warning, they can have a conversation with people but we're afraid that the direction they've been given is to issue a fine in the first instance and I don't think that is very good."

Across the city, almost 160,000 infringements were issued in 12 months, as well as 6500 warnings.

"The reality is, we get more than 40,000 complaints a year from residents asking us to come out and do this compliance," Marx said.

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Wickham Street in Fortitude Valley clocked up more than 5000 infringements in one year alone, the most lucrative in the city, raking in about $910,000.

About 1000 vehicles were towed.

Other hot spots include Margaret and Alice Streets in the CBD and Grey Street in South Brisbane.