TOO MANY MOTORS

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18149, 12 August 1924, Page 8

TOO MANY MOTORS

WORCESTER STREET PARKING PLACE. PROPOSED ABOLITION. A proposal to abolish the "Worcester street parking place from the Federal Club to the Clarendon comer ccirue before the City Council last night. The By-laws Committee reported that & petition had been received! from several shopkeepers in Worcester street objecting to the parking of motor-cars in front of their prciaises in Worcester street "West adjoining the Cathedral square. The committee, after giving the matter careful consideration, had decided to recommend the Council to abolish tn*> parking place. The following resolution should be adopted:—ln purraaiw ot the powers conferred by Section dUU or ' The Christchurch By-law No 1 ' the Christchurch City Council hereby revokes the resolution adopted on August 30th, 1920, appointing a stand or park-ing-place for private cars along the south sido of Worcester street from the Federal Club to the Clarendon Hotel. , , GY. C. P. Agar moved that the matter be referred back to the committee. He s\id the parking place was not m front of the premises of the shopkeepers who made the complaint. The parking place was a most popular , necessarv one and should not bo nool- - ' The traffic inspectors should stop anv overcrowding. . . Cr. O. W. B. Anderson said it was a necessity to make provision for the parking of caxs in the city, Tho city should inarch with the times and should abolish ridiculous hy-laws making it an offence to park cars on empty streets at niglit. He spoke feelingly. Only that day he had received a scrap of blue paper. (Laughter.) * Cr. J. K. Archer said tho Council should adhere to the decision of the By-laws Committee that Worcester street parking place was one of the "biggest nuisances in the city. _ Cars were placed in all sorts of positions, and a large portion of the roadway was j taken up. The streets should not bo ' given ut> as parking places. The city shoiUd provide parking places but not in the main thoroughfares. _ The park- ' ing place would not be retained for one minute if the club in question wws a | poor man's club. _ I Or. E. H. Andrews said the parking I place was a jrrea.t convenience to business men. The whole trouble was that the by-laws were not enforced. Only five cars were allowed on the stand. 'lf tho parking places were taken away where were the ears to go? The Council in the near future would have to provide parking places off the streets a,nd impose a small charge for the use thereof. The abolition of the parking place in Worcester street would not get rid of the cars. There were' other streets where no parking place was provided, continually crowded with standing cars. Cr. W. H. Winsor said the cars in. Worcester street were parked in at any old angle flnd no notice was talcen of the representations made by the motor inspectors. The place was not suitable as a parking place. It should be over the river westward of the Worcester street bridge. Cr. F. R. Cooke said that section of Worcester street was most dangerous for traffic and the parking place should | be abolished.

The amendment, referring the clause back, was lost by 11 votes to 4, CJrs. Andrews, Agar, and Anderson and Beaven voting for it, a,nd the motion -for the Adoption of the committee's report was adopted, Tho formal resolution was also adopted.