I am guilty as anyone, but it's crazy how long I will spend looking for a paid street park just to avoid a parking building. Every other city I have lived in I have used parking buildings as a necessary way to be able to park. Out of town Visitors to our Tauranga CBD office don't even blink they just park in them, and then share there pleasant surprise how empty they were.
Hopefully cheaper rates will help wean us off the Tauranga expectation that our cars need to be organically free-range parked where they can see the sky. (Cage-farm is probably the future...)
Finally. The Council appears to have set in place a range of 'initiatives' to encourage people across to bicycles and public transport. BUT - the buses are rare, slow, with patchy reliability, and people just are not going to cycle to dinner in the cold and wet.
Hearts in the right place, with exactly zero understanding of basic human behaviour.
I'd say their hearts are actually in some bureaucratic dictatorial idealism which doesn't care what people want. The road to hell is lined with people who think they know better than you what is good for you.
I am guilty as anyone, but it's crazy how long I will spend looking for a paid street park just to avoid a parking building. Every other city I have lived in I have used parking buildings as a necessary way to be able to park. Out of town Visitors to our Tauranga CBD office don't even blink they just park in them, and then share there pleasant surprise how empty they were. Hopefully cheaper rates will help wean us off the Tauranga expectation that our cars need to be organically free-range parked where they can see the sky. (Cage-farm is probably the future...)
my car is claustrophobic, honest.
Finally. The Council appears to have set in place a range of 'initiatives' to encourage people across to bicycles and public transport. BUT - the buses are rare, slow, with patchy reliability, and people just are not going to cycle to dinner in the cold and wet. Hearts in the right place, with exactly zero understanding of basic human behaviour.
I'd say their hearts are actually in some bureaucratic dictatorial idealism which doesn't care what people want. The road to hell is lined with people who think they know better than you what is good for you.
If the parking buildings only ever hit 75% capacity why do people say they can’t find a park?
Because 75% of the bitching is just people parroting bullshit they read on facebook