Coupon parking fostered
Coupon-only parking areas will be introduced to encourage people to use coupons.
The Christchurch City Council’s parking superintendent, Mr Geoff Stevenson, said that while meters remained on the streets people would prefer to use them.
The council budgeted for $250,000 income from coupons for the financial year that ended last week. The actual income is
listed in the draft 1989-90 parking budget as $53,000. The budget, approved by the committee yesterday, carries an expected revenue for the present year of $lOO,OOO. Councillors queried if that was optimistic in view of the figure for last year.
Mr Stevenson said some outer-city areas would be made coupon-only areas. He said Christchurch
was lucky to have meters that would take 10c, 20c, and 50c coins. In other cities the move was about to be made to couponsonly because meters could not take larger coins. The draft parking budget approved carries an over-all credit balance of $660,249. The council’s parking activities do not draw from rates. The parking profits are used for other traffic works.
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