Parking is hard to find around our train stations and shopping centres but there are some drivers who are either incompetent or totally selfish. These parking hogs ignore the white lines that act as a guide to where the front or rear of the vehicles should be, and end up taking two spaces.
The result is to frustrate other drivers, or cause other parkers to try and squeeze their car into the space that remains.
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Not only does this leave them liable to a parking ticket if the front or rear of their vehicle overhangs the white parking space lines, it also means the resident whose driveway is adjacent can’t get a clear view as they exit their property and may have to swing out over the centreline to get around the offending vehicle.
The photos on this post were taken near Waterloo Interchange.
Every six weeks Hutt City Council’s Traffic Sub-Committee has in front of it reports recommending that parking spaces have to be deleted or altered because drivers are impinging on the one metre clearance required on either side of a driveway entry/exit.
A bit more consideration for others by a few errant parkers would go a long way to easing parking pressure and frustration.
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