Night pay and display charges trialled at Viaduct
Auckland City’s transport committee will be asked to drop the plan for night time pay and display parking in the inner city when it meets tomorrow morning after overwhelming opposition.
The transport committee had previously endorsed a proposal to extend pay-and-display charging for street parking in the downtown area from the present cut off of 6pm. You would have to feed the meter until 10pm.
A trial of night-time pay and display fees has already begun on the eastern side of the Viaduct Harbour.
There were also reports that this might be extended to areas like Newmarket and Parnell.
The committee will be told a whopping 76% to 84% of people who took part in a survey on it opposed the idea.
A report to the committee meeting tomorrow will reveal there were 1,515 responses through the online survey on the council’s website and 223 CBD businesses responded.
While results were “heavily polarised,” it says across the survey, 76 – 84% of respondents opposed the implementation of extended hours of operation for pay and display parking.
The report from the “parking manager’ of the council’s parking group recommends that the committee endorse the following:
(a) the retention of the status quo for pay and display parking (ending at 6pm) with no extension to 10pm at this time.
(b) the further evaluation by council officers, in consultation with key stakeholder groups, of key areas of the CBD with identified parking capacity problems in order to identify proposed parking management measures that could be systematically introduced in stages throughout the CBD.
If the committee drops it, this is a victory for those of us who pleaded for sanity and common sense to stop the CBD being killed at night.
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5 Responses to “Auckland City Night Parking Plan Gets Axe?”
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND
I thought one of the main reasons for the proposal was to make it easier to find a carpark during the evening, by stopping people who live in apartments from hogging the spaces when they really should either not own cars or find somewhere to park them off the street?
jarbury is right. The rationale for extending the hours of paid parking was because it was becoming increasingly difficult to park downtown.
I live in the central city and my visitors find it incredibly difficult to find an on-street park after 6. Most of these people would be willing to pay for parking if it was available.
So I completely disagree with the contention that it would have killed the CBD at night. What needs to happen is that paid parking is extended, not just in the CBD but also surrounding suburbs like Ponsonby and Kingsland.
Are there any bylaws that make it compulsory for Apartment designers to have car-parks incorporated into it’s designs?
No there aren’t in the CBD Johans, and that’s a good thing. It means that car-owners aren’t being subsidised by everyone else in the CBD.
We need to get rid of minimum parking requirements throughout the city if we ever want public transport to be used by more people than those who work in the CBD. Just look at a place like Manukau City Centre – about 80% carpark.
People can no longer afford to visit us with the new Viaduct Parking prices, we have young children, and they don’t have any friends over because for families, it’s just not an option…