THE PARKING PROBLEM.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 112, 8 April 1930, Page 7

THE PARKING PROBLEM.

GEORGE STREET AREA. TROUBLE WITH MOTORISTS. Stating that some motorists were reading the twenty minutes parking ea in George Street as a permanent irking stand, Cr. Hodgens brought e. matter forward at the meeting of ie Palmerston North Borough CounI last evening. He asked what action as proposed as the traffic manager ad Btated that warnings would connue indefinitely, and it would take lonths to educate individual motorists o the position. _ . . The Mayor said that he had been mormed that a number of councillors rere among the offenders. There was a chorus of, “I was not lere.” The Mayor stated that one car was landing in Coleman Place from 7.30 » 10 o’clock ' on Saturday flight, [e doubted whether prosecutions could e brought, .as the trial period did not spire for a month. He thought an ppeal to motorists would find them iasonable.

His Worship added that the suggesion had been advanced that the venty minutes’ parking areas should e marked with red lines and the thers with white lines, to avoid conasion.

The council decided to leave the matir in abeyance until the expiration : the trial period at the end of. this until, the traffic inspector being inducted to plaoe notices'in the ofiend-

ig cars. Cr Eliott .commented that there was o likelihood of reverting to the old istem of parking.