MOTOR PARKING PROBLEM

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 53, 26 November 1928, Page 10

MOTOR PARKING PROBLEM

CONGESTION AT DAY’S BAY Probably there is no solution of the parking problem, for the simple reason that no city can ever be expected to keep pace in respect to parking space with the extraordinary growth of the motor-car habit. Perhaps the most popular Sunday afternoon run in Wellington is that round the harbour to Day’s Bay. Yesterday was a good sample. From the southernmost point of the bay to Croydon House was a continuous line of parked cars, in places two or three deep, and yet there was insufficient space for all who wished to pull up near the beach. Last summer there was said to be some prospect of the City Council, which controls Williams Park, turning those spare open spaces that front the beach near Croydon House grounds into a park for cars; but beyond the felling of old pine trees along the road edge and the removal of an old garage, there has been no attempt made to meet this summer’s need. A little levelling work by three or four men for a couple of weeks would provide parking space for fifty cars on this waste land. It would not be ideal, but it would suffice for the time being, and on yesterday’s experience the need is very pressing.