ANGLE PARKING

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 148, 19 December 1935, Page 11

ANGLE PARKING

DOUBLE AND SINGLE

FEW COMPLAINTS SO FAR

The innovation of angle parking in some of >the main thoroughfares of the city seems to be working very well. It is of course too soon to comment on the success of the idea, but as a rule complaints are made about any new departure in traffic regulations' within a few hours after they come into force, and in this case ho complaints have been received so far.

Angle parking cannot be universal. The remarkable variation in- the width pi .Wellington streets does not lend itself ;to , universal action. Only where the -width is si/fficient has angle parking, on .both; sides of the road been adopted; though single angle parking —on ; one side of the street only—is no new thing. Double angle parking would; be unsuitable in Featherston Street. ,: ' -::: .■..'■■ ' - :

jEven Lambton Quay' varies considerably in width. Double angle parking, has been, permitted from north of Panama Street tonear the-Ballance Stre'etStram .stop/ but the succession, of street widths northwards is remarkable, 62ft .75ft, 73ft 3in, 75ft 6in, and $Ut '6in, the last being just beyond the ■ driuble angle parking area! •

■ 'It is considered by,-traffic officers that angle.parking with the nose of the car towards; the kerb .would be less safe than/backing into. position, because'a driver wlifl has backed into position wouJd'haYe'.a,clearer view of the passing traffic'- when .moving out. If . the '.'nose in"' idea ' we're permitted, ■ the driver, could riot see so well, and it ■would Jbe longer before he could see U]> or/down the street than if facing the street; Tjefore he came out. i Parking problems are likely to engage the attention of both traffic officers' and public more acutely in the future. There are many awkward narrow streets with problems of their own, now, but, with deep water on the/?west and:'.steep, hills on the east, lateral!:building in Wellington's central business area does not seem possible. The',drily alternative,7 signs of which have' already become. apparent, is ■to build upwards^. Every many-storeyed building which is put up means hundreds more, people, who will.have to use the streets, and a large proportion of the daytime inhabitants of these tall buildings own cars. Where-they will all be parked if the good times predicted coincide with wholesale building programmes in the heart of Wellington' it is hard to say. There will also always bo the considerable proportion of business men who use their cars for transit to save time, and while they are inside one of these buildings, the car is somewhere on the street.