Five new parking zones are credited with helping the council to fund pothole repairs across Brighton and Hove.
And next year the profits from parking will also help pay for about 200 new electric vehicle charging points.
This is the first time that some of the on-street parking surplus will go towards road maintenance after Brighton and Hove City Council made an extra £1.5 million.
The council’s 10th annual parking report shows that the council made an on-street parking surplus of £15.2 million in 2017-18.
Of this, almost £2.3 million is going towards repairing potholes, fixing pavements and resurfacing roads.
Most of the parking surplus – £10.8 million – funds free bus passes for 36,000 older people and 6,357 disabled people.
A further £1.4 million is spent subsidising bus services and other transport projects such as school buses.
The extra income from parking zones came even though 10,030 fewer parking tickets were issued in Brighton and Hove over the past year.
The number fell from 124,069 to 113,939.
The council said: “Driver compliance with parking regulations has been improving for a number of years and there was reduced enforcement for a few weeks due to snowy weather.”
There are three more “civil enforcement officers” working in Brighton and Hove this year, mainly focusing on the roads around schools, bringing the total to 88.
Usually 40 are on duty at any one time as they cover the whole of Brighton and Hove seven days a week.
In July Chris Roberts, of Bernard Road, Brighton, complained that parking wardens did not visit his street for a week.
He said that he found out that parking in his street had gone unchecked after looking at his security camera footage.
In response the council said that officers had visited the street 235 times in six months.
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