Parking Problem

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31764, 22 August 1968, Page 26

Parking Problem

(N.Z. Press Association) DUNEDIN, August 21. Conducting his own defence in the Magistrate’s Court today on a charge of double parking, Mr Joe Brown suggested to Mr T. A. Ross, S.M., that a motorist could not be held to be double parking if he stopped alongside an occupied meter bay. Once a motorist paid 10c

and occupied a meter bay the area became in effect parking lots, not usable roadway, said Mr Brown. The edge of the roadway in this case was therefore the outside edge of the parking bay, and he had parked as close to this as possible, Mr Brown said. Reserving his decision, the Magistrate said that while he was In no way indicating that he would

find in Mr Brown’s favour, this was a novel argument, and one which, if upheld, would involve a “complete revolution” in traffic regulations. “The question I wish to examine is whether it can possibly be said that if a meter bay is occupied, it is available, as required by the regulations, to general vehicular traffic,” the Magistrate said.