Parking strategy lunacy
RICHARD ABBOTT: As a city resident of some 28 years I am dumbfounded at the proposed actions of the incumbent Adelaide City Council to actually increase on-street parking fees, (Car parking fee increase ‘about budget’, InDaily, June 18, 2013), especially when their predecessors have endeavoured to increase city businesses patronage and attract city dwellers.
This council should be looking outside the square and instead, actually offering FREE metered on-street parking, but then zealously issuing obscenely higher infringement notices for overstaying a strategically rearranged mix of free quarter hour, half hour and even one hour on-street car parking. (Figures from 2012 suggest the council receives identical income from on-street parking revenue and infringement notice revenue, in the order of $13 million each.)
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Venues like the Adelaide City Council office require a number of adjacent 15 minute car parks, as it is currently sheer lunacy that one is forced to park in a parking station, then literally take a cut lunch to troop along Pirie Street for a five or 10 minute matter, then rush back to that off-street car park to pay a minimum of an hour’s parking before unwinding one’s way out of the car park!
It seems the proponents of public transport and bicycle entry into the city do not consider that time is money, as the current short-term on-street parking practice is certainly not conducive to cheaply attracting busy people into and out of the CBD.
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