ANGLE PARKING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 139, 13 June 1936, Page 13

ANGLE PARKING.

MORRINSVILLE DECISION.

MAYOR OPPOSED TO MOTION. (Prom Our Own Correspondent.) MORRINSVILLE, Friday. Angle or parallel parking? This question led to animated discussions at last evening's meeting of the Morrinsville Borough Council, which for the past month has given the parking of cars at an angle of 30 degrees a trial in the chain-wide main street of the borough. Previously cars have been allowed to park parellel to the footpaths, and there has been no restriction on time that cars could remain. Lately a limit of 30 minutes has been enforced, with the result that most cars are parked in the nearby side streets, leaving the main street, which is the main highway from Hamilton to Te Arolia and Thames free for through traffic. "Whether the council passes this motion or not I am not going to support it," declared Mr. W. Hetherington in expressing his disapproval of angle parking when the works committee brought down a recommendation that the principle of angle parking be confirmed. Mr. Hetherington said he had seen two ears collide in front of his shop in the main street and he thought it was dangerous for cars parked at an angle to back out into the traffic stream in such narrow streets as Morrinsville possessed. It was all very well for the traffic inspector of the Piako-Hauraki traffic group to advocate parallel parking, but in the other towns in the inspector's territory the main streets were twice as wide or half as wide again as in Morrinsville. The deputy-Mayor, Mr. W. Morrice, as chairman of the works committee, njoved that the principle of angle parking be confirmed and that the by-law regarding a speed limit of 20 miles in the borough, except in certain streets, where it is 15 miles, be enforced. The Mayor, Mr. W. T. Osborne, said angle parking was only an experiment and he would move that the council try another traffic experiment, that of parallel parking with sufficient space between the cars to allow of backing out. This amendment was seconded by Mr. Hetherington, but was lost by four votes to three. When the motion that the principle of angle parking be confirmed was put the Mayor and Mr. Hetherington voted against it and asked that tlieir votes be recorded.