PARKING.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 293, 11 December 1925, Page 6

PARKING.

The problem of motor car parking, which the City Engineer considered in a valuable report presented to the City Council last evening, is a difficulty that every city has to face. It has become so acute in some- places as to raise doubts in some car-owners' minds of the absolute perfection of the motor as a means of transport. To roll down to work in the city in a car, and roll home at night, sounds very comfortable, but a crumpled rose leaf is apt to appear in the shape of the difficulty of disposing of the car during the day. In his report MiT Bush properly distinguishes between classes of motor users. The business man who uses a car only to come to and go from his office deserves much less consideration than the man who uses his car for his business during the day. Mr. Bush thinks that people who go to theatres and other places of public resort in the evening should have reasonable facilities for parking. Conditions in the evening are easier owing to the cessation of commercial traffic. We doubt very much, however, whether it is the council's business" to provide garages for either the twice-a-day businessman or the theatre-goer. As regards the first of these classes Sir. Bush rightly considers that the obligation is on them to find suitable places for their cars. Those who come into the city to shop or do other business he puts in another class. Here it is doubtful whether existing facilities are not too generous. Mr. Bu3h is satisfied that there are no "cheap solutions" of the problem of parking the evergrowing motor fleet, but "that when a commercially paying demand, arises, private enterprise will be found to satisfy it." The City Council may well' leave it at that for the time being.