SELLING “PARK” SPACE.

Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 288, 16 May 1929, Page 7

SELLING “PARK” SPACE.

Has a motor vehicle any right to parking space in streets? If not, is a municipality justified in conferring such a right by selling parking space in streets ? The Melbourne City Council began to sell street space in this way, issuing parking permits at a fee, but the courts stopped it. Then the State Parliament got to work, and as a result of legislation passed last session the Melbourne City Council is resuming the selling of street space to owners of vehicles. Space is to be sold by the day, by the week, month, quarter, half-year and year. The daily ticket will allow the owner of a motor vehicle to | P ar k at any parking area in the | Greets, for one day only, for one shilling. The weekly ticket, five

f shillings, represents a reduction on the daily rate, and the monthly ticket, twenty shillings, represents a j further reduction, except in Febru- !*' f In years that are not leap years. The motorist who buys a threemonthly ticket at £3 will not econo- ! mise much, but a six-monthly ticket (£5 10s) would save him something, : i so would an annual ticket at ! £lO. From the Melbourne City Coun- !

cil s point of view, the revenue side looks good, but on the other side of the account there is the cost of a supervising staff of thirty-five people to meet. These City Council employees will see that there is order at parking-places. It would not be , °f much good to pay £lO, or even j one shilling-, to find your car locked | in by other cars and not released till j midnight. The Melbourne City j Council is minded to give value for I its fees. If the value is not there 1 the motorists will be heard from. I