SMC Call To Arms: Further bike parking removal by Council/ARTA

[Patar]

I retain the right to keep my view of the ACC, as dark and cynical as it may be; it didn't get that way for no reason...

Well it seems the council has handled this whole thing quite intelligently from my view.. doing construction while there's less people around. still keeping the spaces and even considering improvements.

I reckon atleast after this, people should start cutting the council a wee bit of a slack, they're not completely rubbish..

[motorbyclist]

Well it seems the council has handled this whole thing quite intelligently from my view.. doing construction while there's less people around. still keeping the spaces and even considering improvements.

I reckon atleast after this, people should start cutting the council a wee bit of a slack, they're not completely rubbish..

yes and no

the improvements were asked for in our submissions feb 2007

they haven't yet put in more parking to cope with the ever-growing demand

if you ask me, the buslane is a waste of time. on that bit of road it isn't neccessary at all, and now the single remaining traffic lane will act as a bottle neck for the rest of symonds street.

and the plans provided are misleading...


but they are still open to our suggestions, so gotta give them credit for that.


isn't it sad how we always refer to governing bodies we elected through a democratic system as "them"?

[Swoop]

For now though, i'd like to see them try and tow the tl from its nice, out of the way, park

Here is a cunning little idea.
If you have a group of riders arriving and leaving at about the same time each day... Get all the bikes formed into a circle with one wheel of each bike in the centre of the circle. Then get everyones chain/cablelock and put them through the inner wheel then through the next persons chain. All interlinked. Let's see a towie attempt to tow any of the bikes involved in one of these "mutual security" systems.

[motorbyclist]

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh....php?p=1502940

i think this needs to be nipped in the bud ASAP

[motorbyclist]

OH, and it appears the uni actually knows very little about what's gong on. a student rep heard me ranting a while ago and asked what the story was at an engineering meeting. the news about the plan for a ped crossing was new to them! now i've sent in those plans to a person who asked for them for a big uni wide meeting, waiting on the results.

you'd think they'd take a bit more interest in something as major as this

[Squiggles]

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh....php?p=1502940

i think this needs to be nipped in the bud ASAP

Ill go for a ride up there when i finish, but i suspect its just motorcycle parking as usual, with some pay and display for cars as well

[motorbyclist]

update; a poster in the other thread said it's privately owned parking, not the council this time

might pay to check it first

[Folcan]

Not wanting to start a new thread.. and its sorta on topic, to do with the changing of symonds street

Anyone else seen how they have converted 1.5 lanes into 2 lanes now.. makes it impossible to filter at that intersection thats at the end of symonds st near quay st not sure what that road is called customs east or something...

the buses that come hurling down symonds street make me shudder... and that was before they changed the lanes. Im sure they were passing within a few cm of the mirrors of the cages infront of me :S

[Magua]

Anzac street. I rode down it today, the traffic was insane :S Morons parking and taking up nearly the whole lane. :@

[motorbyclist]

how else do you think they intend to put the extra bus lanes on the uni part of symonds street?

it's really unbeleivable what the council does in the name of public transport.
we want to reduce conjestion, so public transport is chosen as a solution and in implementing it they make conjestion markedly worse AND more dangerous!

[bomma]

make your votes count.......mmmmm chicken