PARKING OF CARS

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 137, 5 March 1940, Page 8

PARKING OF CARS

New Bylaw Suggested Following a decision of the North Island Motor Union that local bodies be asked to introduce bylaws compelling drivers lo leave spaces of three feet between cars when they are parked parallel to the kerb, the executive of the Automobile Association (Wellington) decided last night to request the ’Wellington City Council to make such a bylaw. Mr. E. Palliser, upon whose motion tiie executive acted, explained that drivers sometimes selfishly parked their cars so close to other cars that the other cars could not be moved and the owners of them were compelled to break the time limit, on parking. Replying to a suggestion by Mr. A. J. Toogood that drivers should not put cars in gear when they were parked in a level street, so that they could be shifted, lie said that, there was good reason for not wanting one's car shifted, for cars that had not been left in gear were sometimes pushed over pedestrian crossings or fire plugs and their owners wrongly accused of an offence. Mr. 11. W. Shortt said that publicity should be given the fact that it was an offence to park a car closer than six feet from a lire plug. Many drivers did not realize this. The suggestion was made by a member that circles should bo painted round fire plugs in Wellington as was done in other cities, but it was stated that the ’Wellington City Council would be unwilling to incur the expense of further painting on the roadways.

The attention of the council is to be drawn to the faintness of some pedestrian crossing marks.