Simon to screw up parking as social engineering exercise? Or just to make a buck?

The main 3xx buses out of woden to civic are so full from 730 to 9am, i don’t know how they could support more people now anyway.

Parking strategy?

If they haven’t already (and the probably did quite a while ago) this Government just jumped it’s very own shark

EMD, place Simon against the wall to bang against.

First they closed our local school, in a suburb with no buses. Then they designated our new local school to be two suburbs south, in the opposite direction to the flow of traffic, and made our local pre-school in a different suburb to the primary school. And now when I do arrive at a city destination after dropping off kids all over town, I’ll have to battle even longer for parking spaces.

Excuse me while I go bang my head against a brick wall.

Simon you gotta go.

He said that the land was too valuable for parking. Um that is government land that you can sell off right?

I dont see why the developers can get an out by not building as many car spaces (upto 50% under the current parking rules). It is not as if they are needing more land to build these car spots, they just dig a deeper hole.

Any one who takes a car into Civic to shop or work without a certainty of a spot to “store” their unused car must have rocks in their head and lots of spare time. Me, might have rocks in my head but little spare time. I ride a bike or put aside my biases about smelly poor people and catch a bus.
Of course, some investment in light rail would provide certainty.
Only one certainty here, Simon et al have stuffed up the planning big time.

Private sector employees and contractors will almost all drive anyway because:
a) They charge back the cost of parking; and
b) Their employers/clients are not nearly so understanding as govco is for public servants as to when people show up for work.

I will NEVER catch a bus to work, because it’s completely impractical, and I get free parking in the city anyway (and don’t have to pay FBT).

i think i will run for office.

Don’t you people get it… Corbell and the Stanhope Government couldn’t give a shit, they have a majority Government and no one holds them accountable!

Unfortunately at the moment we have to wait until nearly the end of next year to do something about it – just make sure you all do!

IF they would put on a heap more busses and run them more often then maybe…

Reducing parking actually reduces opportunities for areas to grow if you think about it.

Meanwhile out here in Snowtown (aka Brindabella Park) they are building carparks hand over fist.

…and the phrase “developers may make discretionary financial contributions” has me dusting off and priming the Gatling gun.

whenever i hear the word sustainable i reach for my pistol.

establish a new funding method for parking provisions, which involves the development of a Sustainable Transport Contribution Fund by which developers may make discretionary financial contributions that can be used for a wide range of access-related infrastructure and services, including off-site parking, in lieu of a proportion of required on-site parking spaces.

Does this mean developers can chuck a few grand at ACTION and buy their way out of providing parking?

Okay, that worked like a lead balloon. Here’s the non-linked URL for a copy and paste:

http://www.chiefminister.act.gov.au/media.asp?media=2288&section=52&title=media&id=52

Here’s some info on the the media release.

if a light rail proposal had been anywhere near any of the local councils much hyped pt agenda, precinct plans, redevolpment proposals or any other attempt at town planning – then i’d maybe believe him.

but this fella has form.

people dont like buses.

bus routes have no certainty for passengers, developers or planners.

lightrail tracks indicate that building housing, factories, office blocks, schools etc – will be able to be used by people who wont need to drive there or to and from or live etc. and that the tracks cant be capriciously moved.

even his time travelling busway folly doesnt surface for publicity air anymore.

this govt has no credibility when it comes to public transport policy.

Gah! More folly!

I mean – Civic suddenly became utopia when the new Centre development wiped out most of the parking in the area. Why not apply that to the whole city!

Genius! Corbell for ruler of the world!

Simon doesn’t care as long as the development goes ahead.

On the bright side we won’t be able to complain about Canberra being over-planned for long.

i would love to be able to ride to work, but i live in belconnen and work in fyshwick and it would just take me too long to do that so i would end up being late for work, would get fired, end up on the dole and then vandalise buses to keep myself from going insane.

is that what Simon really wants?