Using motorcycle car parks in Auckland

[bogan]

A can of paint and a brush will have it back...

haha, indeed it will, but those sneaky buggers have photos of my bike in front of the broken yellow lines, now if i could only get into the council servers and photoshop it a wee bit

[sunhuntin]

its amazing how some scooter riders manage to take up entire park by themselves. theres one park that i make regular use of when in town, its about the size of 2 parallel car parks. i arrived one morning to find 2 scooters parked in it. one is a lady i know and it was parked perfectly. the other was someone i didnt know, it took up the entire rest of the park! i had a bugger of a time getting my bike in and having to allow for the lean of the stand etc. i was tempted to shift the badly parked one, but couldnt be arsed.

as far as i know theres no penalty here for parking in a car park. ive done it a couple of times when theres one right outside the shop i want. generally i feed the meter, but not if i can avoid it.

[p.dath]

its amazing how some scooter riders manage to take up entire park by themselves. theres one park that i make regular use of when in town, its about the size of 2 parallel car parks. i arrived one morning to find 2 scooters parked in it. one is a lady i know and it was parked perfectly. the other was someone i didnt know, it took up the entire rest of the park! i had a bugger of a time getting my bike in and having to allow for the lean of the stand etc. i was tempted to shift the badly parked one, but couldnt be arsed.

as far as i know theres no penalty here for parking in a car park. ive done it a couple of times when theres one right outside the shop i want. generally i feed the meter, but not if i can avoid it.

But "car" parks often have time limits, or you have to pay. The "bike" parks often don't have these issues.

[MarkH]

I parked on the road in a car parking area a little while ago and was only there for a few minutes. When I got back to the scooter there was a parking warden lurking around - he told be that if I wanted to park at either end of a parking area (like with the wheels right on the line that marks one end of the rectangle that encloses the parking area) then I could park there as long as I liked, because he ignores bikes right at the ends since they are not really taking up a car parking space. I am talking about where there is road marking for an area where maybe 4 or 5 cars can park. It made no difference to me on that day, but I will keep that advice in mind if I have a need to park on the street for longer than the P60 (or whatever) allows.

Kinda like here:
http://maps.google.com/maps/mm?ie=UT...57.31,,0,26.16
If you parked on the line behind the red car on the end.

[Squiggles]

Concensus within parking services is that the areas on the ends of parks are fine for motorcycles, however if you park in a carpark and do not pay... then it'll be down to luck. Footpaths are out. If you have any problems/suggestions then see below

Auckland City Council have a periodic dialogue with 'stakeholder' groups of 2 wheeled interests. (Scoter clubs, bike clubs, BRONZ, University Bike Club etc)

If you have specific issues with parking, or roading let one of these groups know, and it'll be raised with ACC parking 'services'.

Squiggles and myself from the University bike club, Ixion from BRONZ are a few that are on KB who can pass issues on to the authorities.

I was thinking of starting a sticky thread in the University bike club forum as a convenient way to record issues - good idea?

Of course, you're always free to get in their ear yourself...

[sunhuntin]

But "car" parks often have time limits, or you have to pay. The "bike" parks often don't have these issues.

yeh. only time ive used car parks is if i only want that one shop to pick something up, or, in palmys case, there were no bikes closer to where i wanted to be, and i was planning on buying too much to carry [books]
if i do use a car park, i try and leave enough room for other bikes to share if needs. i also park with my front end pointing out and level with the back of cars next to me... easier to see.
bugs me though when scooters use car parks cos they park hard against the kerb, and in an angled park, cars dont see them till they are half way in and then have to back out again. dangerous.

[ZK-Awesome]

I parked on the road in a car parking area a little while ago and was only there for a few minutes. When I got back to the scooter there was a parking warden lurking around - he told be that if I wanted to park at either end of a parking area (like with the wheels right on the line that marks one end of the rectangle that encloses the parking area) then I could park there as long as I liked, because he ignores bikes right at the ends since they are not really taking up a car parking space. I am talking about where there is road marking for an area where maybe 4 or 5 cars can park. It made no difference to me on that day, but I will keep that advice in mind if I have a need to park on the street for longer than the P60 (or whatever) allows.

Kinda like here:
http://maps.google.com/maps/mm?ie=UT...57.31,,0,26.16
If you parked on the line behind the red car on the end.

I don't like parking in places like that, you do run the danger of boxing the cage in. It would be pretty easy for them to back into your bike as cages often have to reverse a bit to get out of parallel parks.