Parking meter complaints
Sir, — I read with interest the comments of the city’s parking superintendent, Mr G. N. Stevenson. Contrary to his belief, retailers
are not “looking for something to blame for the downturn in sales.” Every day customers complain bitterly about the harsh and arbitrary parking enforcement officers; and about the difficulty of finding their way around Christchurch with its plethora of one-way streets and pedestrian malls. Some say that they have made their last shopping trip to central Christchurch and that in future they will shop in the suburbs where there are no meter maids. The City Council and its staff must realise that the surest way to depress a city is to make access between shops arid shoppers’ personal transport difficult. People will not patronise an area if they cannot park their car close by. — Yours etc., DUNCAN BRUCE. December 7, 1983.
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