CAR PARKING AT WHARF

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22445, 5 July 1938, Page 5

CAR PARKING AT WHARF

“NO FURTHER FACILITIES TO OFFER” HARBOUR BOARD’S POSITION “While it appreciates that the volume of passenger motor traffic to Lyttel--ton by road is increasing, your committee begs to recommend that the Automobile Association be informed that the board regets it has no further parking facilities to offer, and it is of opinion that. the matter rests between the association and the Railway Department.”

This paragraph summarises the findings of the Lyttelton Harbour Board’s harbour improvement committee on the subject of access for motor-cars to the steamer express wharf at Lyttelton (No. 2 jetty), and increased car parking facilities at the wharf. The findings were submitted to the board by the committee yesterday in the form of a report, which was adopted without discussion.

The committee comprises the entire it reported having met and inspected the area adjoining the steamer express wharf in company with Messrs F. W. Freeman, L. M. Wilson, J. S. Hawkes, and G. S. Morris (representatives of the Automobile Association, Canterbury), and Messrs W. Rogers (assistant district traffic manager), and A. K. Dyne (statibnmaster at Lyttelton); representing the Railway Department. ' The committee considered the matter fully, together with the following resolution of the council of the Automobile Association, which had been remitted to the board:—“ The time has arrived when adequate parking’ areas should be established at the Lyttelton ferry wharf, and also better access facilities for the convenience of Canterbury motorists and passengers on the steamer express.” j The findings of the committee were set out as follows:

(1) “That the 17 parking spaces, on and at the base of the wharf, are all that. the board can provide in its .limited space available. The board has agreed that two of these shall be reserved for taxis.

(2) “That the Railway Department is unable to forgo the use of that part of No. 2 breastwork which lies west of No. 2 jetty alongside the Union Steam Ship Company’s port office, on the grounds that it is in constant use as a standing siding for rolling-stock used at No.” 2 wharf, and will be in greater use soon as the widening of the wharf, now in hand, is completed. (3) “The Railway Department without prejudice to its rights of discontinuance of the privilege, now allows motor-cars to park on the railway’s waterfront de facto road which runs parallel to the Harbour Board’s boundary, the breastwork wharves. (4) “The Railway Department’s representatives point but that vehicular traffic crossing the railway yard at the foot of Oxford street is a hindrance to, and is at grave risk of accident from, shunting operations and passenger train traffic in the Lyttelton Station yard. (5) “Your committee finds that the arrival and departure at No. 2 wharf of the steamer express train and its length preclude the possibility of providing more parking .spaces on the board’s small area to the eastward of the wharf from which side the railway curves 'SS wbatffi. ~