COUNCIL’S DIFFICULTY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27579, 22 December 1950, Page 8

COUNCIL’S DIFFICULTY

Crawford Street Parking OTHER SPACES AVAILABLE The committee was alive to its responsibilities and did not lightly make any alteration in parking arrangements. said Cr Barnes, chairman of the General Committee of the City Council, in a statement yesterday dealing with the. new parking system in Crawford street. It must be remembered, however, that the streets were made for moving traffic, and that citizens had the right to use them, so that while due. weight would always be given to representations from sectional interests, the committtee had to consider every problem from the broadest angle. The alterations had been made under the Traffic Regulations. 1936, and had been confirmed and approved at a meeting of representatives of both the General and Transport Committees. The committe was anxious to cooperate with all interested parties in the matter of traffic control, and it felt that a spirit of goodwill and mutual co-operation /was essential if traffic were to flow smoothly. “In so far as Crawford street is concerned,” Cr Barnes said ( “the difficulties which arose recently were due, first, to a reluctance on the part of motorists to use the parking spaces available in Vogel and Cumberland streets—spaces which were available handy to the main business area at all times—and secondly, to the number of cars which were in the city for reasons not unconnected with the wool sales; thirdly, to the difficulties put in the way of commercial traffic to the produce markets by private motorists parking in the centre of Crawford street.”

Cr Barnes stressed that parking in the centre of the street would not be tolerated under any circumstances, and that the Traffic Department would assist commercial vehicles in every way possible. These vehicles, with a driver in attendance, would always be permitted to stand in the centre of the street while waiting their turn to enter a cart dock to load and unload.