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    Probably all about revenue gathering! Bastards!
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    Pathetic pricks, I agree with the suggestion to stack the car parks with bikes!

    Target the worst offending area and concentrate as many bikes as possible, then move on to the next one.

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    How many bikers would it take? How many could be mustered? How? hmmm!

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    I recon you guys up there should have a KB parking day. Where you head into town at some un godly hour in the morning, get a few hundred bikes to take as many parks as you can (and get harleys to take two, cause they're 'fat') and then listen to the music from the council. What a fucken load of shit.

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    we should rally up, find the most popular car park in town or mall, then park one bike in each car spot for a few hrs in protest, watch 'happy shoppers' go find another parking spot..

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    Quote Originally Posted by bugjuice View Post
    we should rally up, find the most popular car park in town or mall, then park one bike in each car spot for a few hrs in protest, watch 'happy shoppers' go find another parking spot..
    Queen Street, High Street, Around Shortland Street. Enough to get exposure.
    I'd be up for 4 hours takeover. One bike per car parking, completely legal with paid parking chits.

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    Organise a time and place. Might as well do a KB meet up in local cafe while we're at it.
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    Find out where the cunts in council park their cars, then park all around that area!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Marmoot View Post
    Queen Street, High Street, Around Shortland Street. Enough to get exposure.
    I'd be up for 4 hours takeover. One bike per car parking, completely legal with paid parking chits.

    Weekend is good, weekdays is jewel.
    Organise a time and place. Might as well do a KB meet up in local cafe while we're at it.
    Excellent, Marmoot. Put it in the events calendar! Probably a weekday morning would be best - that's when there would be the most pressure on car parks in town I'm guessing?

    Also we should prepare flyers in advance to make it quite clear to the public what our issue is (and expect some pissed off car drivers to have a go). And contact the media in advance (but only if we're expecting a good turnout).

    We should also write a letter to all Auckland City Councillors explaining why it is good for the city to encourage bikes (less congestion, lower emissions, less parking space) and telling them exactly the outcome we want (more dedicated bike parks and/or not ticketing bikes that are parked on a footpath without obstructing it).

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    Quote Originally Posted by klingon View Post
    Put it in the events calendar! Probably a weekday morning would be best - that's when there would be the most pressure on car parks in town I'm guessing?
    Anyone care to initiate?

    Quote Originally Posted by klingon View Post
    Also we should prepare flyers in advance to make it quite clear to the public what our issue is (and expect some pissed off car drivers to have a go).
    A simple white paper marked "we want safe parking" is enough volume.
    K.I.S.S (keep it simple & stupid), most car-only persons would not be able to read more than 2 lines of text.

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    its possible their thought process is that we have free parking at all the parking lots anyway, so why should we be able to park on the foot path as well.

    I am keen to join in on this but I think a weekday is out since most people wont get out their jobs to do this
    I would say perhaps, get in early sat for the lunchtime shoppers.

    what number does it become worth doing? 50 bikes in one carpark?

    also this could backfire on us if they decide to check wofs/rego's on everyone and some of us get pinged.
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    Parking up the city centre for the sake of highlighting the stupidity of council.... hmmmm
    OKAY I'm in! lol
    We would need to get enough people organised to move the bikes one space up every hour just to get the full effect though, I think in peak times there is a one hour limit in town right?
    Target the number of spaces, assemble that many bikes plus 1, so no space is ever left unoccupied, move them up one space per hour, need a shit load of coins to make sure we don't get tickets.
    I reckon it would take less than a week to get council 'looking for a better solution'.

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    Quote Originally Posted by vifferman View Post
    the bikers went into the city early, and made sure that they parked in car parks, one to a park, instead of on the footpaths. Didn't take long before the car drivers got the council to back off.
    Count me in for that, And I'll pay the parking for a student to join me. Let's pick a day How does Monday sound? Any suggestions on where (Queen Street suits me).

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    Quote Originally Posted by vifferman View Post
    Bwahahahahahahaha!!:

    Since when was the Council known for being pragmatic and sensible?!?
    It started right after the Resource Management Act was passed...
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    Can anyone actually confirm what's going on with Council though. If this is a policy move then yes - fight it. If it's one warden with PMS then I see no need to highlight a problem that doesn't exist...
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    make sure they don't extract any $ out of this: ensure your WoF and Rego are all valid, and display (tape VERY securely) paid parking chits on your windscreen to make your bike 100% politically correct. Needless to say, park right in the middle of the carpark bay, lengthwise to make sure no cars can pull in

    Policy or no policy these parking wardens and their masters needed a lesson anyway.

    Demand a secured bike park while we're at it. A simple metal bar along a bike parking bay would make it 100x more secure!

    I'm so fukcen (sic) sick of these bike thefts around the city.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ManDownUnder View Post
    Can anyone actually confirm what's going on with Council though. If this is a policy move then yes - fight it. If it's one warden with PMS then I see no need to highlight a problem that doesn't exist...
    A variety of different parking orifices have been targeting us Uni bikers for the past couple of months for being on the footpath -- we've got our own bitch and whine thread about it.

    I would definitely be up for some parking chaos, but it's very important to check the rules for parking meters; on certain ones, it's actually illegal for bikes to use them, even if you pay. I know this was the case in Wellington when they were discussing this. Just check the rules first otherwise this could backfire.

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