Pay Parking increase in Woden

Thread mine of the year for 2011.

Comfort yourself knowing that instead of $8.50 per day, you can pay $5 per day for the privilege of Park and Ride. Although, it might mean a bit more time and effort, especially if the buses don’t turn up on time or at all. You may or may not get to sit down on the bus and you will most likely have the pleasure of crossing paths with delinquent society, if not on the bus then certainly in the interchanges.

If the Government really wanted more people on buses, they would make fares $2 or $3 per day, ensure buses run on time, increase frequency, decrease the length of bus routes and the number of stops per bus (45 minutes for a 15 minutes trip by car is just ridiculous) and have security patrols of buses and the interchanges.

Until they make our only form of public transport cheaper, safer and more efficient, I’ll be driving my car.

Call me crazy, but could someone please explain why the Government should be doing what it can to help motorists?

For me – drive to work: leave home at 8.30. – leave at home at 7. I would love to catch the bus if it were practical, but it’s really not. At all.

Anyway, what I was going to say is, how DO they regulate that 3 for free thing? I’ve had three people in my car and still paid for parking, ’cause I don’t understand how the inspectors know you had others with you?

the main problem i had with using buses is that it works reasonably well for 8.30/9.00 to 5.00, but if you can’t escape work right on 5.00 the 30 min trip home becomes much longer.

i need to be out and about for part of the day to see clients, and the buses are of no use to me then.

Totally. Hell, the bus is actually looking like a viable option to get there – aside from turning a 12-15 minute drive into a 45 minute trip.

Used to. Just scored my first 9-5:30 job (never thought that’d happen in my line of work).

Too bad if you start work before 6AM.

city parking should be a minimum of $20 a day.

Use the public transport alternative, even if it is a bus.