Keep Wellington's motorcycle parking free - sign the petition!

[GOONR]

Added a new campaign page to the MAG-NZ site. The page will be updated with any developments.

[StoneY]

Added a new campaign page to the MAG-NZ site. The page will be updated with any developments.

Awesome bro. Bling ya when I have some more rep to give out

Amazing...we all fight like pack rats every day, every week, year in year out...... but when we come under attack at any level, Kiwibikers unite like no group of folk I have ever seen before in any facet of lifestyle

It happened for BIKEOI, again with the young rider who died leaving his 16 year old widow........and over parking now....makes me proud to be a flame warrior!!!!!

Thanks MAG for the solid support to Wellington Motorcyclists
A new era in cooperative representation is truly at hand

[Bald Eagle]

Added a new campaign page to the MAG-NZ site. The page will be updated with any developments.

Bling applied

[StoneY]

3000+ participants in the petition. Checked the others, and this by far is the most successful.

One old one that was regarding the recycle bins has 9000 sig's but man that's a far more wider public than mere bikers, however this one is now officially the second biggest ever....and its less than a week old!

The Recycler Bins took 3 months to get 9k siggies

[Big Dave]

B. If you want free parking, get a bicycle, you fat cunts.

Some of us are smart enough to keep our licences.

[DEVVIL]

Signed... will need to book leave to come down so keep us updated FB KB

[BMWST?]

There are none in Hastings district. I did once ask the head of parking why, and he said they were considering it... that was about four years ago. We're expected to take up a full car space and pay full car rates.

Still not sure I understand the compelling argument for bikes having completely free parking though.

I mean it's brilliant and you should fight to keep it, but it sounds like demand far outstrips supply in the Wellington CBD. If you're taking up, say, 20% of the room of a car park, why should you not pay a proportional parking fee?

because of the other benefits of having 1300 odd bikes coming into the city instead of 1300 more cars.With just a little bit of thought bike parks could be incorporated in many places with little loss of car parking or other amenities.However the councils own plan is to DISCOURAGE all day parking on the streets,its in the district plan.This review happens regularly

[taff1954]

Amazing...we all fight like pack rats every day, every week, year in year out...... but when we come under attack at any level, Kiwibikers unite like no group of folk I have ever seen before in any facet of lifestyle

Ain't that a fact.

Petition duly signed (both of us, of course)

I'd be interested to see what NPDCs views are, especially given the current mayors' support for bikers during the ACC protests.

[Pussy]

I'd be interested to see what NPDCs views are, especially given the current mayors' support for bikers during the ACC protests.

New Plymouth's current mayor is an idiot.
You could write a full and comprehensive list of his achievements on the back of a .60c stamp with a builder's pencil

[StoneY]

Hope this aint a double post.... just received through BRONZ connections, some very good stuff

http://notobikeparkingtax.com/

Campaign allies


The chap from Island Bay thats been lobbying council has contacted BRONZ as well... he is solidly in our camp and has a primo submission!

Ill get our secretary to check we can copy it here before I post content tho so bear with us guys (our org has some rules after all and its not all about me and what I wanna say...honestly!)

WIMA, Ulysses, and MAG are all on board as well
The machine is rolling, lets make it a juggernaut that cannot be ignored!

[jrandom]

Some of us are smart enough to keep our licences.

Heh! A minority, though. A fairly tiny minority.

Running afoul of the road regulations is a rite of motorcycling passage, Dave. A rite that one generally goes through before taking it to the racetrack and getting it out of one's system. A rite that one suspects is a necessary prerequisite to becoming an interesting bike mag writer.

(The rhetorical device I employed there is called 'anaphora', by the way. Try it sometime!)

Anyhow. That was off-topic. You're still a bunch of tubby whinging scrooges who don't want to pay to take up space in cramped central cities, or sweat a few drops instead of using motor vehicles.

I do not expect to see any decision-making sympathies successfully engaged on the subject.

[Big Dave]

I was just taking the piss! 'Get f@cked' would have done.

Yeah we have track testers and road testers - but I got top billing in this month's KR

[James Deuce]

For those who refuse to read the fine print (Dan, Mokadah and others):

1. WCC have a bylaw that prevents motorcycles from using metered parks. Motorcycles are not allowed to park in them.

2. Wilson Parking have a policy that prevents motorcycles from parking in car parks in their parking buildings.

3. WCC have banned parking on the footpath (obviously where it doesn't impact on pedestrian access - anyone who blocks the footpath deserves a ticket) and will ticket people parked on private property adjacent to footpaths. You are then left with providing proof that you are parked on private property.

Remove motorcycle parking and where do bikes park? WCC claim to be investigating contracting parks from private enterprise, but private enterprise has actively prevented casual parking by motorcycles in parking buildings for the last 25 years. If there is a contract signed it will take months (if ever) for Wilson parking to magic up the parking spaces without affecting space for cars. Tournament Parking have no clear policy, but I used to have trouble from time to time when I parked my bike in my personal permanent park provided by work. I had a bit of comedy watching some idiot trying to affix a wheel clamp to my bike.

This doesn't look like a "make bikes pay for parking move to me". This looks like an attempt to prevent people using bikes for commuting. At least, they'll make it expensive enough for people to consider public transport as a viable alternative. At worst, there will simply be nowhere to park a bike in the Wellington CBD. If you have to be anywhere on time Wellington public transport is utter bullshit.

[pzkpfw]

... This looks like an attempt to prevent people using bikes for commuting. ...

Rhetorical question: have you seen how many one-person-per-car commuters there are on the motorways?!

They (WCC et al) seem to be looking the wrong way to "fix" whatever problem they are working on.

[caseye]

For those who refuse to read the fine print (Dan, Mokadah and others):

1. WCC have a bylaw that prevents motorcycles from using metered parks. Motorcycles are not allowed to park in them.

2. Wilson Parking have a policy that prevents motorcycles from parking in car parks in their parking buildings.

3. WCC have banned parking on the footpath (obviously where it doesn't impact on pedestrian access - anyone who blocks the footpath deserves a ticket) and will ticket people parked on private property adjacent to footpaths. You are then left with providing proof that you are parked on private property.

Remove motorcycle parking and where do bikes park? WCC claim to be investigating contracting parks from private enterprise, but private enterprise has actively prevented casual parking by motorcycles in parking buildings for the last 25 years. If there is a contract signed it will take months (if ever) for Wilson parking to magic up the parking spaces without affecting space for cars. Tournament Parking have no clear policy, but I used to have trouble from time to time when I parked my bike in my personal permanent park provided by work. I had a bit of comedy watching some idiot trying to affix a wheel clamp to my bike.

This doesn't look like a "make bikes pay for parking move to me". This looks like an attempt to prevent people using bikes for commuting. At least, they'll make it expensive enough for people to consider public transport as a viable alternative. At worst, there will simply be nowhere to park a bike in the Wellington CBD. If you have to be anywhere on time Wellington public transport is utter bullshit.

Awesome post JD, I too don't believe it's anything to do with parking issues but the councils ( after a big push by Pollies I'd wager) attempt to make it uneconomic/viable to use motorcycles to commute.
This cannot be allowed to happen as per the last episode if we let it happen in Welly, it WILL HAPPEN everywhere else in the country.