31 July 2010

Paid parking in Barton from 16th

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The word is out around the government offices in Barton that the parking lot behind the Ottoman (bounded by Macquarie, Broughton, Blackall Sts is closing this afternoon and re-opening on the 16th AS A PAY AS YOU USE PARKING LOT.

Where does anyone suggest I park? It’s always been a scramble to get a spot in there after 8:30 anyway, and I don’t imagine there’s many other spaces available close by.

Also I’ve heard $8 per day when it re-opens. Anyone confirm this?

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Is there anyone in the ACT Administration with the gumption to perhaps design a system of parking zone passes so that people are not having to cart around wodges of change (or leave them in their cars as a target for opportunistic scumbag druggos) or would that be too difficult – i.e. making life just a little more convenient for those that appear to have to pay for the nose for the privilege at each drop of the hat.

You know, 3 monthly, 6 monthly and yearly passes – some that are good for the City only, some for a mix of zones….or is this intellectually bankrupt City so addicted to the daily Ka Ching of loose change?

Thoroughly Smashed12:11 pm 02 Aug 10

commoner said :

I intend to keep using my car and parking in Barton for free as long as I can. If it no longer becomes possible, I’ll get a spot in my building’s paid underground parking area. I will try my best to avoid giving the ACT Government any parking money or riding on any of its buses.

Let us know how you get on with that.

Clown Killer11:18 am 02 Aug 10

Are you also going to avoid driving on the roads, attending the hospitals and sending your children to the schools that they fund?

What do you mean by “they fund” surely you mean “we fund”. Where do you think that the Governmnets gets all this money to fritter away on social experiments like free health care, eductaion, public art and rehabilitation programs? It’s our money. Some of us were even silly enough to give them more than we were absolutely obliged to.

neanderthalsis9:38 am 02 Aug 10

There is the dirt (mud) carpark at the end of Blackall St that you could try, although I’m pretty sure that it fills up rather early.

georgesgenitals9:37 am 02 Aug 10

astrojax said :

Davo111 said :

park on the outskirts of town, then take a direct bus straight to work

yeah, great if you have childcare or other commitments… not.

And that’s the problem – there will always be people with kids and family groups that share a car each day to get everyone where they need to be. For these people, buses often don’t work.

commoner said :

I intend to keep using my car and parking in Barton for free as long as I can. If it no longer becomes possible, I’ll get a spot in my building’s paid underground parking area. I will try my best to avoid giving the ACT Government any parking money or riding on any of its buses.

Are you also going to avoid driving on the roads, attending the hospitals and sending your children to the schools that they fund?

I intend to keep using my car and parking in Barton for free as long as I can. If it no longer becomes possible, I’ll get a spot in my building’s paid underground parking area. I will try my best to avoid giving the ACT Government any parking money or riding on any of its buses.

Now at the office you and 50 of your colleagues will have something new to whine about over morning tea. If only you weren’t so busy playing the poor me trump card it might dawn on you that FIVE of you could come to work in the same car and split the 8 bucks. Or perhaps $8 is not quite high enough to make you want to do that- better to pay the $8 each and cry about it on riotact.

georgesgenitals9:03 pm 31 Jul 10

bd84 said :

georgesgenitals said :

Be interesting to see how the organisations that provide car parking in that area for their employees go. Presumably there’ll be some FBT implications to work through.

Most of the parking in the parliamentary triangle is general parking not provided by any particular business or department, none of this parking would be subject to FBT, only where it forms part of a building would FBT apply.

That’s what worries me. Where I work we share the building carpark on a first come first served basis, so I guess that gives the business the choice of either allocating parks to whom they want, or simply paying the FBT themselves.

three post nutbag – how long since we had one of these??

Davo111 said :

park on the outskirts of town, then take a direct bus straight to work

yeah, great if you have childcare or other commitments… not.

Ryan said :

There’s a heap of parks on the other side of Kings Ave, near treasury.

no there isn’t. by about 8.25am one is consigned to parking all the way over by the library/questacon or up beside archives – much later and archives equivalent adelaide ave side of oph…

Zardos said :

About time. Driving a car to work every day is a triumph of selfishness over survival. Sufficient resources will be put into public and sustainable transport only when the use of private cars is priced according to its real cost.

An excellent point. Driving is such an appealing proposition only because none of the massive costs to government, business or society of car use are borne by drivers at the point of use (or in many cases at all).

sexynotsmart4:25 pm 31 Jul 10

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Rawhide Kid No 22:46 pm 31 Jul 10

Zardos said :

About time. Driving a car to work every day is a triumph of selfishness over survival. Sufficient resources will be put into public and sustainable transport only when the use of private cars is priced according to its real cost.

And is the monies collected going back into providing public transport like more buses more frequently or even a light rail. Or is it just going into consolidated revenue?

park on the outskirts of town, then take a direct bus straight to work

georgesgenitals said :

Be interesting to see how the organisations that provide car parking in that area for their employees go. Presumably there’ll be some FBT implications to work through.

Most of the parking in the parliamentary triangle is general parking not provided by any particular business or department, none of this parking would be subject to FBT, only where it forms part of a building would FBT apply.

georgesgenitals1:27 pm 31 Jul 10

Be interesting to see how the organisations that provide car parking in that area for their employees go. Presumably there’ll be some FBT implications to work through.

Just pay your $8 per day, and be thankful for all the years you’ve had parking for free.

Humphreys had a petition a while ago against this, I wonder if it got lodged?

About time. Driving a car to work every day is a triumph of selfishness over survival. Sufficient resources will be put into public and sustainable transport only when the use of private cars is priced according to its real cost.

It is closed from Monday 2 August, reopening Monday 16th. The two week period is to both install parking voucher machines and to increase the number of spaces.

It will be $8 for 4 hours or more. Not sure on the cost below that time.

There’s a heap of parks on the other side of Kings Ave, near treasury.

$8 is $2 cheaper than I already pay in the city – and these days that is pretty average. The rort with parking is that you have to pay for blocks of time as opposed to by the hour.

I was just discussing with Mr Cholet today about whether the Gov has done any research on the percentage of people who are unable to take public transport. In this town, where you have very high employment and also a lot of those people needing childcare because they are in full or part-time work and have young pre-school or young school age kids, it makes it hard to get public transport. My husband and I share the child-care run, and we do get the bus or ride a bike to work on our off days.

I do have to say though, I am a bit fed up with the screaching about having to pay for parking from those lucky enough to have had it for free up until now. Even down in Tuggers where we live, workers have to pay for parking unless their office has a private carpark.

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