Parking and Media
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More Pedestrians on Cuba St Will Destroy Business, Say Campaigners
- Salient
- A coalition of business owners on Cuba St are petitioning the Council to reconsider its plan to remove 20 car parks along the stretch of road between Ghuznee and Vivian. Organised by (unsuccessful) Lambton Ward candidate and famed Kaffee Eis creamslinger, Karl Tiefenbacher, the “Park It” campaign hinges itself on business owners arguing that losing the 20 car parks will make a significant impact on their profit margins. “The thing to remember is that a lot of people walk here, obviously, and I get stupid statements like, ‘cars don’t spend money, people do’, but cars don’t drive themselves either, so every car brings an extra person to Cuba St,” he told Salient. “You know, we’re selling a low cost product, and we need a lot of turnover, so if we lose something like 10% of our business [by having no car parks], that’s enough to send us under.”
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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In praise of Wellington’s spy car
- Wellington Scoop
- Kiwis are terrible drivers. Over the holidays, the news has been full of the consequences of our bad driving habits as the dead and maimed piled up across the country. Largely these victims were the consequences of basic driving errors – speeding, badly-judged overtaking moves, hit-and-run crashes, drinking and driving, and failing to put on a seat belt. We kill ourselves on the road at more than twice the rate of the UK and rank as one of the worst performers for road deaths in the OECD. And we’re no better around Wellington’s narrow streets, which is why the much-maligned “spy car” is such an essential tool. In the Wellington region, road deaths and injuries rose 10% last year, bucking the national trend.
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The disappearance of nine car parks, and the decline of a heritage shopping precinct
- Wellington Scoop
- n November 2008, road works were started to resurface and widen Riddiford Street in Newtown, from the southern end to the heritage shopping precinct at the intersection of John Street and Adelaide Road. The contractor put up a sign saying the work would take a month. But it took two and a half months, finishing about the middle of February 2009.
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Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The price of parking, the cost of leaks
- Wellington Scoop
- We learnt last week that the Wellington City Council earns $6000 every year from each of its pay-and-display parking spaces. The news came in a statement from the Mayor, responding to a DomPost report that the council was thinking of ending free parking for motorbikes and scooters. Not so, she said.
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What to do with parking fines?
- Wellington Scoop
- After claims that Wellington parking wardens were given ipods and overseas trips to encourage revenue gathering, the Wellington City Council put an end to the speculation – there was just one ipod, and one overseas trip. Both prizes were gifted in a warden’s competition which had nothing to do with how much revenue they’d collected. Fair enough, too. Many employees are offered rewards for a whole range of reasons. But public perception is hard to shake. So, what should the council do? Here’s an idea that’s guaranteed to please everybody. Well, nearly everybody.
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WCC parking update from Jon Visser
- Scoot NZ
- Happy New Year and I have some good news. I have just finished a meeting with our traffic engineers, who have agreed with the following proposed traffic resolutions (subject to public consultation & agreement by Councillors)
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WCC traffic resolutions – additional motorcycle parks
- Scoot NZ
- WCC have put forward a number of traffic resolutions, submissions close 5th Feb 2010. Several include additional motorcycle parking. Link here Posted in Legislation & Bylaws, Local Govt Tagged: parking, Wellington, Wellington City Council
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WCC propose removing the Mercer St motorcycle park
- Scoot NZ
- If you had heard of the recent proposal to change Manners Mall from it’s current pedestrian only status to being a glorified bus lane – and weren’t very interested, think again. Buried in the details are a proposal to remove the current Mercer St motorcycle parking area.
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Wellington parking update
- Scoot NZ
- from Jon Visser of WCC: “I have confirmed with our parking contractor that: “For parking restrictions indicated with a blue & white sign, these restrictions only apply between the hours of 8am and 6pm unless the sign specifies a different time period or ‘at all times’. While the law now allows this to be enforced seven [...]
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WCC: Campaign Against Illegal Motorcycle Parking
- Scoot NZ
- Campaign Against Illegal Motorcycle Parking31.08.09 Free parking for motorcycles and scooters hasn’t stopped riders from illegally parking on inner-city footpaths and roads and we’re about to get tough on offenders. Over the past year we have provided extra on-road parking spaces for about 100 motorcycles and scooters in the inner city, bringing the number [...]
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New motorcycle parking areas proposed in Wellington
- Scoot NZ
- Wellington City Council have just released a set of new Traffic Resolutions for consideration, which includes several new motorcycle parking areas. It adds up to a total of 54 metres. WCC Traffic resolutions. “Information:Council has received numerous requests to increase the availability of motorcycle parking in the CBD. Currently demand for on street motorcycle parking space exceeds [...]
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