TAX PROPOSED FOR STREET PARKING

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 175, 14 October 1927, Page 16

TAX PROPOSED FOR STREET PARKING

UNDERGROUND GARAGE NOT FEASIBLE “It appears! to me that ill view of the extensive use that is mc.de of the jmblio streets for all-day parking: of cars, it might be possible to devise some system whereby an amount could be collected from the owrers of such cars for the privilege of using: the streets as a parking place.’* This was the suggestion made by the city engineer last evening when the Works Committee reported: “The committee cannot make a recommendation with reference to the proposed urderground parking garage, out it views; with alarm the: increased erking of cars in streets which have en permanently paved, and. asks that the legal ami by-laws committee should investigate the position and report.” The question had been referred to the committee as the result of a suggestion from Cr. Brinsden that the council consider the building of such an underground park, under Fanshawe Street, the location extending: approximately under Albert and Nelson Streets. The city engineer went into the position, and reported that a garage 566 feet long, with accommodation for 156 cars, could toe built, together with a smaller one capable of parking 90 cars. The cost of constructing the; first would bo about £ 80,000, and the other would involve about €46,000. He pointed out that this would mean at least 13s 4d a week, not counting attendants and lighting, etc. The question was referred to the other committee.