PARKING METERS
Sir. —Until recently it has been illegal to park a motor vehicle in the central city area for more than 10 minutes. The reason given for this was that any longer period of stopping tended to restrict the flow of traffic on the streets, which, it was frequently pointed out, were built for travelling on, not stopping on. Can anybody, therefore, tell me how it is that now the City Council receives a cash payment, the need for freemoving traffic is apparently forgotten, and cars may be parked* for 30 minutes —or even longer—providing the money is forthcoming. I am “neither for nor against” parking meters, but 11 would like an answer to my question.—Yours, etc., INQUIRER. June 14, 1955.
(The Town Clerk (Mr H. S. Feast) said: “The reason for any form of parking control is to ration parking space, and it is suggested that the extension of the parking time in some central areas from 10 to 30 minutes is made possible, not because the City Council now receives a cash payment, but because the motorist is now required to make a cash payment. I think the inquirer will agree that 30minute parking in the centre of the city is now much easier to obtain than 10 minutes’ parking was before the introduction of meters.”]
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Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27709, 13 July 1955, Page 3
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