There goes the parking in Dickson as the biggest car park becomes a supermarket

rommeldog56 said :

Nah, I would imaging that they will paint pedestrian crossings or put pedestrian lights on Northborne Ave so that tram passengers can get from one side of Northborne Ave to the other. Or they will build pedestrian flyovers or underpasses ? Will be interesting to see how they handle pedestrian traffic to/from the tram if it runs down the middle of Northborne Ave.

More obstacles and delays for drivers. Flyovers and underpasses are expensive, especially if they have to be wheelchair-capable.

Majura Park is a valid option now for the weekly shop. The Woollies there is far bigger than Dickson, the parking is free and there are some major shops there. Apart from filling up the tank with cheap petrol.

So far Terry Snow has demonstrated that he is more than a match for government. His airport development is a textbook case of private town planning. If it comes down to attracting shoppers away from a congested and expensive Dickson, my money’s on Mr Snow to come out on top.

rubaiyat said :

johnboy said :

Andrew Barr has had this to say on Facebook:

There will be no net loss of parking to the public during the development of the Dickson supermarket site, with alternative parking to be provided nearby. The Crown Lessee of the site will be required to implement a parking strategy, and develop and implement a temporary traffic management plan before construction starts.

Which neither defines “nearby” nor magics parking next to the Woolies out of thin air.

And lets not forget the Light Rail only a 10-15 min walk away across several lanes of busy Northbourne Ave! Passengers will enjoy the even LESS convenience of it all!

Has anyone walked from Dickson to Civic to check if there is any difference to making your own way rather than getting to the Light Rail stop to wait for the next tram?

Nah, I would imaging that they will paint pedestrian crossings or put pedestrian lights on Northborne Ave so that tram passengers can get from one side of Northborne Ave to the other. Or they will build pedestrian flyovers or underpasses ? Will be interesting to see how they handle pedestrian traffic to/from the tram if it runs down the middle of Northborne Ave.

johnboy said :

Andrew Barr has had this to say on Facebook:

There will be no net loss of parking to the public during the development of the Dickson supermarket site, with alternative parking to be provided nearby. The Crown Lessee of the site will be required to implement a parking strategy, and develop and implement a temporary traffic management plan before construction starts.

Which neither defines “nearby” nor magics parking next to the Woolies out of thin air.

And lets not forget the Light Rail only a 10-15 min walk away across several lanes of busy Northbourne Ave! Passengers will enjoy the even LESS convenience of it all!

Has anyone walked from Dickson to Civic to check if there is any difference to making your own way rather than getting to the Light Rail stop to wait for the next tram?

watto23 said :

dungfungus said :

rommeldog56 said :

Skyring said :

p1 said :

The development will more than double the car parking currently available on the site, and will also include a residential component above the shops.

Forgetting for a moment the year or two it will take to build – how much of this doubling of parking is left after the resident of the flats above the shops, and the employees of the new shops, each park in their space?

Exactly right. The effect will be that there is less parking available.

But that’s what the Greens want. They want to force us to abandon our cars. It’s becoming more and more difficult everywhere. Parking is becoming more expensive – and scarce, speed limits are dropping, and fees rising.

Presumably each unit will have one underground parking spot in the new complex. No doubt, many will have 2.

When built, how many residential units are now proposed Vs no. car parking spaces ?

Perhaps the upsde is that not every unit will have allocated car spaces in the new development. Won’t the tram will take away the need for a car anyway ! Pigs might fly too.

Car parking will be available but it will cost more. This is what “value adding” is all about.

dungfungus said :

rommeldog56 said :

Skyring said :

p1 said :

The development will more than double the car parking currently available on the site, and will also include a residential component above the shops.

Forgetting for a moment the year or two it will take to build – how much of this doubling of parking is left after the resident of the flats above the shops, and the employees of the new shops, each park in their space?

Exactly right. The effect will be that there is less parking available.

But that’s what the Greens want. They want to force us to abandon our cars. It’s becoming more and more difficult everywhere. Parking is becoming more expensive – and scarce, speed limits are dropping, and fees rising.

Presumably each unit will have one underground parking spot in the new complex. No doubt, many will have 2.

When built, how many residential units are now proposed Vs no. car parking spaces ?

Perhaps the upsde is that not every unit will have allocated car spaces in the new development. Won’t the tram will take away the need for a car anyway ! Pigs might fly too.

Car parking will be available but it will cost more. This is what “value adding” is all about.

And people have the right and ability to not shop there. That is the thing with inner city and suburban living. Its not a right to live there. People are free to shop somewhere with free and copious amounts of empty car parks if they want to. Of course people also want free parking, lots of it within 5 minutes of where they live. We can’t have everything! I bet Dickson still gets plenty of shoppers afterwards. There are supermarkets in other cities that a 30 minute park is $5 and then stay for an hour and its $30!

You are totally correct but the car parks I was commenting on were ones that will be part of the new residential unit developments along Northbourne Avenue.
My guess is that the Governmnet will soak this valued added fantasy as much as they can by creating separate titles for car parks under units.
This will accelerate cash flow and create something else to levy annual rates on. The government is expecting wealthy people to move into this precinct so they will have no issue with buying a secure car park for the Audi which they can use when they don’t want to catch the tram.
Car parks can then be traded like low digit number plates.

dungfungus said :

rommeldog56 said :

Skyring said :

p1 said :

The development will more than double the car parking currently available on the site, and will also include a residential component above the shops.

Forgetting for a moment the year or two it will take to build – how much of this doubling of parking is left after the resident of the flats above the shops, and the employees of the new shops, each park in their space?

Exactly right. The effect will be that there is less parking available.

But that’s what the Greens want. They want to force us to abandon our cars. It’s becoming more and more difficult everywhere. Parking is becoming more expensive – and scarce, speed limits are dropping, and fees rising.

Presumably each unit will have one underground parking spot in the new complex. No doubt, many will have 2.

When built, how many residential units are now proposed Vs no. car parking spaces ?

Perhaps the upsde is that not every unit will have allocated car spaces in the new development. Won’t the tram will take away the need for a car anyway ! Pigs might fly too.

Car parking will be available but it will cost more. This is what “value adding” is all about.

dungfungus said :

rommeldog56 said :

Skyring said :

p1 said :

The development will more than double the car parking currently available on the site, and will also include a residential component above the shops.

Forgetting for a moment the year or two it will take to build – how much of this doubling of parking is left after the resident of the flats above the shops, and the employees of the new shops, each park in their space?

Exactly right. The effect will be that there is less parking available.

But that’s what the Greens want. They want to force us to abandon our cars. It’s becoming more and more difficult everywhere. Parking is becoming more expensive – and scarce, speed limits are dropping, and fees rising.

Presumably each unit will have one underground parking spot in the new complex. No doubt, many will have 2.

When built, how many residential units are now proposed Vs no. car parking spaces ?

Perhaps the upsde is that not every unit will have allocated car spaces in the new development. Won’t the tram will take away the need for a car anyway ! Pigs might fly too.

Car parking will be available but it will cost more. This is what “value adding” is all about.

And people have the right and ability to not shop there. That is the thing with inner city and suburban living. Its not a right to live there. People are free to shop somewhere with free and copious amounts of empty car parks if they want to. Of course people also want free parking, lots of it within 5 minutes of where they live. We can’t have everything! I bet Dickson still gets plenty of shoppers afterwards. There are supermarkets in other cities that a 30 minute park is $5 and then stay for an hour and its $30!

rommeldog56 said :

Skyring said :

p1 said :

The development will more than double the car parking currently available on the site, and will also include a residential component above the shops.

Forgetting for a moment the year or two it will take to build – how much of this doubling of parking is left after the resident of the flats above the shops, and the employees of the new shops, each park in their space?

Exactly right. The effect will be that there is less parking available.

But that’s what the Greens want. They want to force us to abandon our cars. It’s becoming more and more difficult everywhere. Parking is becoming more expensive – and scarce, speed limits are dropping, and fees rising.

Presumably each unit will have one underground parking spot in the new complex. No doubt, many will have 2.

When built, how many residential units are now proposed Vs no. car parking spaces ?

Perhaps the upsde is that not every unit will have allocated car spaces in the new development. Won’t the tram will take away the need for a car anyway ! Pigs might fly too.

Car parking will be available but it will cost more. This is what “value adding” is all about.

Skyring said :

p1 said :

The development will more than double the car parking currently available on the site, and will also include a residential component above the shops.

Forgetting for a moment the year or two it will take to build – how much of this doubling of parking is left after the resident of the flats above the shops, and the employees of the new shops, each park in their space?

Exactly right. The effect will be that there is less parking available.

But that’s what the Greens want. They want to force us to abandon our cars. It’s becoming more and more difficult everywhere. Parking is becoming more expensive – and scarce, speed limits are dropping, and fees rising.

Don’t worry.. saving the planet is more important than spending time with your kids!
/sarcasm

Skyring said :

p1 said :

The development will more than double the car parking currently available on the site, and will also include a residential component above the shops.

Forgetting for a moment the year or two it will take to build – how much of this doubling of parking is left after the resident of the flats above the shops, and the employees of the new shops, each park in their space?

Exactly right. The effect will be that there is less parking available.

But that’s what the Greens want. They want to force us to abandon our cars. It’s becoming more and more difficult everywhere. Parking is becoming more expensive – and scarce, speed limits are dropping, and fees rising.

Presumably each unit will have one underground parking spot in the new complex. No doubt, many will have 2.

When built, how many residential units are now proposed Vs no. car parking spaces ?

Perhaps the upsde is that not every unit will have allocated car spaces in the new development. Won’t the tram will take away the need for a car anyway ! Pigs might fly too.

p1 said :

The development will more than double the car parking currently available on the site, and will also include a residential component above the shops.

Forgetting for a moment the year or two it will take to build – how much of this doubling of parking is left after the resident of the flats above the shops, and the employees of the new shops, each park in their space?

Exactly right. The effect will be that there is less parking available.

But that’s what the Greens want. They want to force us to abandon our cars. It’s becoming more and more difficult everywhere. Parking is becoming more expensive – and scarce, speed limits are dropping, and fees rising.

watto23 said :

Maya123 said :

dkNigs said :

Oh look, more customers for Majura Park.

Are you sure!
That’s a long way to go for the ‘weekly’ shop and would use a lot of petrol, although true, some people do forget to factor that in, plus the time factor getting to Majura Park and back. I had a look at Costco, for instance, the other day. Unless you are feeding a large family the sizes of the the items for sale are too big for the average Australian household of 2.6 (in 2011) and getting lower, and I would imagine that the demographics about Dickson might make that figure lower still. (So pleased I checked out Costco before wasting my money and joining.) There are closer alternative supermarkets, including in Civic. I’ve never had a problem with getting a park in the Civic mall multi-storey car park, although I admit I haven’t parked there for sometime, as I find the bus very convenient to get to Civic. More convenient than driving. There are convenient buses from the north side suburbs to Civic too, if the building work at Dickson makes getting to Dickson a problem, making Civic a more convenient shopping destination, with a larger range of choices, than Majura Park.

So its about 20km return trip to Majura from Dickson. Assuming your car uses say 10l per 100kms, that 2 litres of petrol. So it would cost around $2.50 in petrol.
Now given you can save ~20 c a litre for petrol at Majura and on say a 50L fuel tank, thats a savings of $10.

Looks like its cheaper to go to Majura IMO.

How much is your own time to drive there worth?