CAR PARKING

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 113, 9 November 1937, Page 10

CAR PARKING

REASONABLE TIME

RATEPAYERS' PROPOSAL

The question of car parking and its relation to traffic problems was considered at an executive meeting of the Wellington Ratepayers' Association held last night, and after considerable discussion the following resolution was adopted:—

"That this association, representing ratepayers who provide a good deal of the rate levy which is used to administer the city's affairs, urges the City Council to enforce rather, a 'time parking' or 'waiting time' system than total prohibition, and for this reason, business people pay heavily for the frontage they occupy, not only in rates but in capital cost for buildings and land, and it would be manifestly unfair to enforce, 'prohibition' parking. , '.'A time limit of 20 to 30 minutes should be: allowed shoppers, and if this were firmly but courteously enforced, many of the city's present parking difficulties would be overcome without, hurt to the business people of the city. The following excerpt from the London 'Daily Telegraph' dated September 23, 1937, is pertinent to the auestion:—The rights of the private motorist in the streets of London are again being considered by the Minister of Transport. Traders of Wigmore Street have laid before Mr. Burgih a vigorous protest against the no-wait-ing" order which has been in force in that thoroughfare for 1.4. months. They assert that its effect on their business has been disastrous,. a. falling-off in trade of as much as 50 per cent, having followed.' . ■

"The Wellington Ratepayers' Association- suggests that no final regulations should be adopted in Wellington until the. matter has been further considered and business people's interests fully considered. The association is not advocating lengthy or all-day parking, but it affirms the proposition that provision must be made in any regulations formulated by the civic authorities whereby people wishing to do business in any street shall have reasonable parking or waiting time allowed so that they may do their business without undue hindrance."