Parking Problem

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30979, 8 February 1966, Page 1

Parking Problem

While limited parking had been made available at Lyttelton to harbour board and railway employees, large numbers of other workers were having extreme difficulty in finding parking for the day, said the secretary of the Combined Port Unions’ Committee for Parking (Mr S. M. Dromgoole). yesterday.

The committee, representing all unions connected with waterfront work, yesterday decided at Lyttelton that a further approach be made to the Lyttelton Harbour Board in an endeavour to reconvene a meeting of all parties. The unions represented on the waterfront workers' committee, said Mr Dromgoole. included the seamen’s union, waterside workers, permanent hands, tally clerks, harbour board workers, and the drivers’ union. “I would say that if all the

• workers who had cars brought i them down here to Lyttelton , there would be chaos,” he said. 1 Mr Dromgoole said that yesi terday’s meeting considered I the present rail transport and , inadequate bus service forced workers to use their own vehicles. The demand for i more parking in Lyttelton grew daily. The reconstruction of roads, ’ the use of land for other pur- • poses and much increased • road transport had virtually . eliminated any small areas , that had been available for parking in the past. “Lyttelton streets are overi loaded,” he said.