TOP TEN #40: Things wrong with Wellington parking
10. RVs.How is it that no matter how far away you park from the RVs they still manage to park next to you? I park in the corner car park hard next to the kerb so any car that parks next to me will be at least a metre away. One Ford Explorer owner recently at the Thorndon New World thought that meant they could park even closer to me. Thanks for the dent and I hope you never find your windscreen wiper!
9. VIPs.
How is it that Crown Limousines and Diplomatic cars go to so much effort to block so many parked vehicles when they double park? And do the chauffeurs leaning on the hood smoking a fag give a shit? At least one of them got a shit when they parked outside the Wellington Club under the Pohutakawa! Bahahahaha!
8. Parking Wardens.
OK, I can understand why their job is so important to earn enough money for the council to splurt on the arts but hanging around my car waiting for my pay and display to expire while I am sitting in the car is a bit zealous! The car next to me had enough chalk on the tyre it looked like a zebra! Consistency people!
7. Buses.
OK, so you expect us car drivers to give way to buses but do they give way to us when we pull out of a park? Thanks, but you guys are the cause of congestion with your constant stopping, slow speed, dirty diesels with only a couple on passengers! How’s that efficient? Any why can’t you arseholes stay in the bus lane? You removed all those parking spaces to make them! Bus stops should be converted into parking spaces!
6. Resident parking.
Is it just me or does the Welllington City Council deliberately issue more Residence Parking Permits than there are Resident’s only parking spaces? Someone liked musical chairs at kindergarten too much!
5. Reading Cinemas Parking.
OK, you tell me if this is deliberate! Do Reading Cinemas Parking ever have more than one pay booth operating? They must have figured out that after a full house at the St James Theatre there might be a lot of people wanting to leave the parking building at once! It took 45 minutes to get out of the place and only one boot operating! How much did they gain from that extra half an hour parking in a queue? Fuckwits! Some people at the performance must have known this as they left 5 minutes before it ended.
4. Narrow streets.
It doesn’t take a genius to see that some roads are so narrow in Wellington that when cars park on both sides of the road a single row of traffic can’t fit down it. And yet people park there. Quite a few people are missing wing mirrors and do I give a shit?
3. The corporate sector are stupid.
What is the sole goal of the corporates, huh? And yet when you drive around a parking building finding a park the only empty ones are those reserved for the fat cats? Here’s an idea. How about a sign ‘No Parking during business hours’? You won’t then be paying so much for a bloody parking space every year then you twits!
2. Airport
Never before in the history of parking has there been such a cynical attempt to make money. As much as the first five minutes are free, you are always assured to wait in a queue for at least five minutes no matter what time of day.
When so many flights arrive from Australian now around midnight do you think they might keep two pay booths open? Staffing the pay booths with English as a second language people at that time does not speed things up either!
1. Technocrats miss the point.
Take for instance Wilson Parking at the TSB Bank Centre. OK, so the idea is you pick up a card when you enter the carpark and then pay at machines before you leave. So in this cashless and automated society the machines only accept cash! Yes, cash! No credit cards, no text parking! So the problem is, where is the nearest money machine? At the TSB Bank Centre you would think? No! What about the ASB Bank Building across the road? No! The nearest money machine is at the National Bank building 250 metres away from the carpark by foot! To make things worse the machines can not recognize the fresh $10 notes! Wankers!
Hint: TXT Parking! The public sector beat you to it!
Is there anything else I have overlooked?
posted by Kiwi Bloke at 12:26 PM
10 Comments:
Re: #8
Is it just me, or are the parking wardens getting younger and spottier every passing week? Either that or they look like they've come fresh from the WINZ office, and would half expect them to break into the car, as much as put a ticket on the windscreen!
And they're multiplying! They go around in groups of two or more for backup, as if expecting to get set upon by a member of the public.
The #1 problem with parking in Wellington? There's far too bloody much of it!
I'm with Tom - every time I visit Wellington I'm amazed by the number of empty carparks in easy walking distance of the city centre.
In Auckland, on the other hand, the nearest empty parks are either expensive parking buildings or in the next suburb over (Ponsonby, Mt Eden).
Harden up!
I'd say that the problem with parking in Wellington is that the buses aren't good enough so sometimes you have to drive in.
But as for #2 Why does it matter if the person is bad at English? What are they saying to you? What are you saying to them? The amount comes up on a big red screen and you throw money at them.
You forgot to mention the people who park in motorcycle parks.... they're not just motorcycle parks during business hours people!
Despite denials that any other cars were involved in the PM's motorcade parking incident, the photo's prove otherwise.
you forgot f^*&ing c^*ting towies who wait till you are 15 minutes over a 3 hour pay and display and then tow you, forcing you to pay $100 plus for the privilege of retrieving your car from the otherside of town
Here's my beef with residents' parking (and if I have it wrong... it'll be because I only half remember & can't be arsed looking it up) - but residents' parking only applies during business hours, when most residents are at work - this leaves residents from further afield parts of the suburb free to park outside other residents houses who are closer to the city.
After hours... it's a free for all anyway, so why do residents pay for the privilege?
llew - maybe we dont take our car to work!!!!!
At least Wellington Parking is better than Parisian Parking, Roman Parking, and Bucharest Parking. If you've ever been to one of these cities then you'll never complain again.
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