The parking proposals may not come back until the end of the year

The Environment and Public Services Committee wanted the States to approve a plan to increase the prices of parking so it makes a profit.

Currently it can only increase rates if the money raised goes to cover costs.

But States members said they were not confident of the plans because there was not enough clarity about how the profits would go back into transport.

Account clarity

Under the transport authority's plans, all the money from increased parking charges would go to things such as buses and road repairs.

That profit would then be put into repairing the roads, subsidising the buses and increasing the amount of parking in St Helier.

But some States members said they were concerned there was not enough clarity about how the profits would go back into transport as initially they would go into the main States accounts.

After a debate, the Environment Committee's president, Senator Phillip Ozouf, agreed to a plan by Senator Stuart Syvret to look at the plans again and make them clearer.

Senator Ozouf said this would mean the proposals would not come back to the States until at least the end of the year.