Parking restrictions

Well I’m glad I kept reading through to No. 17! Thanks mezza 76, helpful and encouraging. And thanks to the authors of #9 and #11. (By the way watto23, I answered your question in No.8).

Shercom, I had a similar issue when I lived in Kingston. Cars were allowed to park on both sides of a very narrow street and made through traffic impossible and a nightmare to go in out of the apartment building I lived in (especially on the weekend).

I put a complaint forward on fix my street (https://www.canberraconnect.act.gov.au/app/forms/fixmystreet/session/L2F2LzEvdGltZS8xMzkyMTkzMDU0L3NpZC9RVEI4TEpNbA%3D%3D)

With some well reasoned argument and photos of the street – TAMS changed the parking signs and was all done and dusted within a month or so. Now people can’t park on both sides of the street and it’s heaps easier and safer to navigate.

Good luck. Give it a go.

Snarky said :

voytek3 said :

It never ceases to amaze me how stupid people are. Serves you right for choosing to live in such a hole

I can’t think why more people don’t join in the discussion here when incisive, wittily expressed gems like this apparently pass “moderation” as adding to the site’s and the discussion’s value. Two thumbs up, RA!

Voytek hates Canberra with a passion and I have at least once suggested on this forum that they should leave town and not let the door hit them on the arse on the way out…

voytek3 said :

It never ceases to amaze me how stupid people are. Serves you right for choosing to live in such a hole

I can’t think why more people don’t join in the discussion here when incisive, wittily expressed gems like this apparently pass “moderation” as adding to the site’s and the discussion’s value. Two thumbs up, RA!

You didn’t answer my question. Currently you say “We live in a narrow street in Crace – 6 m of asphalt – with no parking restrictions, no parking bays and, except for one house, no driveways.”

So I’m guessing people park on the vacant land. And they are going to build across the street with similarly bad planning with regards to car parking. Is that the problem?

I doubt you have much chance to get it changed or fixed to be honest, especially when moving there the information would have been available. Is it not unreasonable to think that if one side of the street was built with no driveways that the other side would be almost the same.

The Cadillac won’t fit down most Gunghalin streets.

It never ceases to amaze me how stupid people are. Serves you right for choosing to live in such a hole

The Fair in Watson is a pretty dismal example of such parking. The houses have single garages so people park all over the shop. It’s like walking through a used car lot.

I recall the pissing and moaning when 50kph suburban speed limits were introduced about how much longer it was going to take everyone to get anywhere and blah blah blah. In reality the drop from 60 to 50kph accounted for around 5% of most journeys….the very start and very finish, because all major interconnecting roads remained at 60kph and they are the roads we should be using to get from A to B.

If you fear people are going to pelt down your street with disregard for parked or oncoming vehicles…the problem is not the parking arrangement. If you have to give way to someone for 10 secs of your 30 minute drive to work because of a parked car, should people be made to not park out the front of their house to save you that 10 seconds every now and then.

Crace will change all that indeed.

Memories of living on the front of Caswell. If cars parked both sides, as legal, without riding up over the curb – there would have been no way for a single lane to pass through. This is considered reasonable ?

And one of the failed Aranda Shops developments claimed that parking wouldn’t be a problem because it was a 40k zone; um, no, its a school zone.