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| Thread ID: 125123 | 2012-06-07 19:36:00 | Parking | pctek (84) | PC World Chat |
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| 1280456 | 2012-07-09 21:26:00 | No problem here in Christchurch, they are turning the entire CBD into one giant carpark with excellent direct bus links to all suburbs.. :) They had to have a big shake up to get on with it :) |
coldfront (15814) | ||
| 1280457 | 2012-07-09 21:47:00 | Hearing the Auckalnders complain yet you still live there! Yes. Some of us have tried not to but this is where the jobs are. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1280458 | 2012-07-09 22:25:00 | The proposal (which is all that it is at present) is not significantly different to current prices . Many meters have a 90min limit, some are two hours and some are three, and I carry a swag of $1 & $2 coins in my car at all times . Pricing ranges from $4 . 00ph to $6 . 00ph, and privately owned or managed carparks charge what they like ($10 minimum in the new Owen Glenn building at the AK Uni, and the SkyCity charges are worse), so it gets very expensive if you stay several hours . I have to park in the City for work reasons but fortunately I can pass on the costs, and if I am going to be on site for some time I ask the client to provide parking on site, they always have some reserved spaces for contractors . In reality though, availability of street parking in Auckland Central is so limited that it doesn't really matter what they charge, you are not likely to find a park anyway . :( Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1280459 | 2012-07-09 22:49:00 | I often have to visit sites at both Downtown and Newmarket. I'm in the habit of (free) all day parking if necessary on Great South Road at a bus stop (either direction into / out of the city) at Magness Benrow, and then bus to where I'm going. Frequency is excellent being on a major feeder and I probably have to walk no more than 250m during the day. Easier than finding a car park, less time involved, and affordable as well ($6.50 total). I don't have any equipment to carry of course. :D | WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1280460 | 2012-07-09 22:58:00 | Just avoid going to the CBD, it's a hopeless 'city'. Who wants to go there? | bk T (215) | ||
| 1280461 | 2012-07-09 23:16:00 | Hearing the Auckalnders complain yet you still live there! It's called voting with your feet. Might not make much sense, but if I want to see improvements to something I use the damn thing. (Public transport anyone? ;)) Just avoid going to the CBD, it's a hopeless 'city'. Who wants to go there? Me. :D |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1280462 | 2012-07-10 01:03:00 | Wellingtonians, me included, quite like our public transport particularly the buses . If I want to go by bus to somewhere unfamiliar I work it out beforehand . Aucklanders don't . They 'guess' a bus then ask the driver . It holds things up . Every second person says 'does this bus go xxxx?' When driving in Auckland I let the bus go first - and the driver waves! That's because it's unusual . Aucklanders don't have a culture of respect for buses . Their culture is that buses are for losers and anybody of any value surely would be driving a car . They see a long line of buses and blame the traffic congestion on them . . . |
BBCmicro (15761) | ||
| 1280463 | 2012-07-10 02:03:00 | Just avoid going to the CBD, it's a hopeless 'city'. Who wants to go there? Dead right there squire, when I have to go there I park on the footpath and put my flashing amber lights on. |
prefect (6291) | ||
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