Parking pangs in Alexandria
- Author:
- Jason Marshall
- Posted:
- Thursday, 16 February 2012
Alexandria residents are frustrated by the council’s piecemeal approach to parking around the Australian Technology Park.
The residents are feuding with the Australian Technology Park (ATP) over parking in the surrounding area as the cars of workers and customers from the site overflow onto residential streets.
The ATP charges employees for using the company’s car park, causing residents and ATP employees to compete for the free car spaces on the street.
Last Wednesday the City of Sydney unveiled its plans to address the issue at a community meeting in Alexandria Town Hall.
The proposed plan would turn sections of the surrounding streets into permit parking.
City of Sydney Parking Project Manager, Mark Hannan, said permit parking would only be implemented in streets that showed strong support for parking change in a recent consultation.
However the head of the Friends of Erskineville Traffic and Parking Committee, Paul Howard, said providing only partial permit parking was pointless as it would only drive up demand in the non-restricted zones.
“Street by street is a very inexact way to do it,” Mr Howard said.
Residents were also concerned that people who did not respond to the consultation would not be counted when considering the number of necessary restricted parking spaces. Eighty five per cent of residents did not respond to the council’s survey.
Mr Hannan said the consultation process was ongoing and he would be happy to talk to anyone about their concerns.
By Jason Marshall
A street in Alexandria at 4.45pm
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