WCC to debate "Daft Parking Policy" 1st May (again)

[James Deuce]

Good, because if anything happens to my bike I'll cry.

[Hailwood]

Well I can be there from 8.30 onwards...no one better try to move my bike thats for sure.......

[Little Miss Trouble]

Good plan. I wish I could join you, pissing off self important people is great fun.
Has anyone thought to put notices up at Vic, Weltec etc? I'm sure theres plenty of students who would want to get involved.

[James Deuce]

Srudents have scooters and they damage people's bikes when they fall over. (eh little prick who dented my loudener and did a runner when I chased after him on foot).

Therefore I'll be setting up a protest ride to ban scooters and students.

[Little Miss Trouble]

Ok I can understand the scooter thing but no students? i'm sure theres a few out there with 250s plus i should think they'd be the first to jump in and stop people trying to move the bikes? hmm they may be too poor to pay the meters though...

[ajturbo]

ok... sounds good .. please can you organise and tell me when and where .. a couple of days notice

[James Deuce]

Bezel nuts!

I also feel mean now.

[Toaster]

Yeah as Phil said in that email we got at work today........we'll simply tell them that if they want to charge us for parking our bikes......we'll simply park the fuckers in car parking spaces and pay the meters. That'll cause no end of problems for a town already struggling for car parks!

Brilliant idea! Mind you, I need a car space for mine anyway.

[Nasty]

Be prepared for "people" to attempt to move bikes, knock bikes over, and start messy confrontations. There are all sorts of service contractors using Featherston St from 6:30am - 9am.

They won't care about your point, most people are in a rush and have a job to do or get to.

There is also allocated parking for these people .. we can't park there anyway.

[James Deuce]

You're assuming that they follow the rules Nasty.

They don't.

They follow the rules as much as a certain Yamaha cruiser rider who rides down the footpath and doesn't acknowledge people waving at her from 2 metres away.

Hey look! I complained about someone not waving back when I was walking. On the footpath. Avoiding a motorcycle.

[Nasty]

I participated in an email programme started last year by Mark Hodson last year about the same issue. I have kept the responses and they included

" the proposal was defeated 7 votes (Crs Pepperell, Cook, Gill, Shaw, Wade-Brown, Ruben, and Foster)

to 4 (Mayor Prendergast, Crs Morrison, Wain, Armstrong)."

Amongst other information.

Colapop, Andy Foster is a keen supporter .. if we go ahead with this protest it would be good to have his support.

Nasty Bitch (getting to be a grumpy bitch at this issue raising its ugly hear again)!!!

[Nasty]

You're assuming that they follow the rules Nasty.

They don't.

They follow the rules as much as a certain Yamaha cruiser rider who rides down the footpath and doesn't acknowledge people waving at her from 2 metres away.

Hey look! I complained about someone not waving back when I was walking. On the footpath. Avoiding a motorcycle.

Opps ... well there was no bloody parking spaces on the road ... so I parked on the path in front of them ... but getting back off the path was fun ... hhehe

I think I was concentrating on not killing the kid walking towards me Jim .. Honest otherwise I would have waved ...

[Shadows]

If we get the numbers, it would be worth everyone's investment of $10 for one day's protest to stop having to pay for it every day.

No need to pay for parking if sitting on one's bike. Also less likely that somebody will try to fuck with it if somebody is sitting on it.

[Shadows]

MAybe we need to strategise this a bit now and decide if May 1 is the right day or the day before which is Monday April 31. Mondays are slow news days so if we alert the Greens, TV3 and the DomPissed then it will all hit them the day of their deliberations.

The first day of any month may not be ideal for a lot of office workers.

[PuppetMaster]

I cant believe the feckers would try and bring this up again. How can they be so short sighted. How can this possibly be good for Welly.
I will definetely be there for any type of protest.
We could just close off Lambton Quay, or the motorway at Nauranga, now that would be effective.