Year 10 student Austin Wyatt gathered submissions from almost 100 respondents and has been so inspired by the reactions and comments he has received that he will encourage more businesses to take part.

"I want to see where this ends up," he said.

Austin initially asked members of the public how parking meters would affect their behaviour.

Then he invited the business community to reveal its feelings about parking meters.

His major school project will reveal about 80 per cent of respondents are not in favour of parking meters.

But Austin also says the individual remarks vary greatly and comments from those against parking meters have tended to be worded far more strongly than those in favour.

He believes those individual comments will give a clearer overall picture about what people really think.

He has had about 15 business responses so far, but would like to get a far broader picture and discover what the main issues are surrounding the meters and the arguments for and against their use.

There is an online link to Austin's parking meter survey in the Facebook group Parking Meters in Wollongong CBD Survey.

Anyone interested in accessing a web link can email Austin at austin.wyatt@y7mail.com and he will send them the address.