Excuse me, Akl council

[Big Dave]

Don't do as Sydney - and then do as Sydney and 'promote'.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/...366158731.html

[Pwalo]

Move to Wellington. Weather's interesting, but the parking's not too bad for bikes.

[Big Dave]

Move to Wellington. Weather's interesting, but the parking's not too bad for bikes.

Lol - Always been high on list of priorities seeing I work from home.

Point is the council should be doing more to encourage people to ride bikes and scooters.

Somewhere to park them - duh!

[Waylander]

Move to Wellington. Weather's interesting, but the parking's not too bad for bikes.

Or Tauranga where there is pretty much a bike park every 50ft or so downtown.

[Ixion]

This came up in Dorkland years ago. We fixed it.

You just need a few bikers 100 is a good number but they don't all have to be present at once.

You pick a series of places where parking is at a premium. Then a bunch of bikers (a few dozen at least) congregate on that place and steadily take over all the parks. One bike per parking space. Paying the meter if necessary.

Do the first place for a couple of days. Then move to the next one. After a week the council will be so deluged by cagers complaining about motorbikes hogging all the parking (legally but!) that they will pull their horns in. Nothing they can do. It's all legal.

Plus pressure from the cops sick of being called out to break up confrontations when some cager tries to move a bike.

But bikers was more bolshie then. I doubt Sydneysiders would fight back.

[NZHog]

Worked in Dunedin a long time ago too

[Forest]

Being able to park on the footpath was one of the things I loved about Melbourne.

Tram-tracks on the other hand...

[breakaway]

So this is rant about some dude who got done for parking on the footpath?

It's common sense that you shouldn't do that.

Thats like saying "Oops I killed someone but I didn't know I wasn't allowed to do that. Can I please get off this time?"

At my old place, the street was very narrow, and everyone used to park half their car on the footpath. By everyone, I mean almost every house. One day, all the offending cars (including my mum's car) got stung. ~$100 fine. We wrote to the council and got it sorted, didn't have to pay.

How many of you can honestly say that "you didn't know" that parking on the footpath is illegal?

[Big Dave]

It's common sense that you shouldn't do that.

You missed the point.

It's common sense for the authority to provide adequate designated parking.
And that should be at the expense of provisions for single occupier vehicle weighing over...say 1.5 tonnes.

[Ixion]

So this is rant about some dude who got done for parking on the footpath?

It's common sense that you shouldn't do that.

Thats like saying "Oops I killed someone but I didn't know I wasn't allowed to do that. Can I please get off this time?"

At my old place, the street was very narrow, and everyone used to park half their car on the footpath. By everyone, I mean almost every house. One day, all the offending cars (including my mum's car) got stung. ~$100 fine. We wrote to the council and got it sorted, didn't have to pay.

How many of you can honestly say that "you didn't know" that parking on the footpath is illegal?

Dude,it's a BIKE.

Bikes always park on the footpath. It's a natural law and a God given right.

I always park on the footpath never have had a ticket for it.

[fjones]

Man I wish I never read this thread... I didn't know it was illegal parking on the footpath!

DAMN!

[Big Dave]

DAMN!

Do it anyway. But be smart about it.

[cowpoos]

Or Tauranga where there is pretty much a bike park every 50ft or so downtown.

go back to canada

[Sanx]

I got two tickets on the XR250 for parking on the pavement in Newmarket. When I queried it, they said it was because the weight of vehicles damages the pavement, which is designed for pedestrians.
I wrote back to them and pointed out that my bike weighed less than half the population of South Auckland.
Tickets were cancelled, but with a warning not to park on the pavements again.

[Bnonn]

You can see that if bikes park on the pavement a lot, the combined effect of their sidestands could start causing potholes. But honestly, that's a pretty lame excuse. You can also see that bikes parking directly on a footpath throughway will be an obstruction to pedestrian traffic. But parking in a nook on the sidewalk ought to be legal—particularly given the complete lack of motorcycle parking generally provided by our councils.

I was recently parked in a wee cranny between two large square decorative flower-beds on Anglesea Street. A place where no one was going to walk. I returned to my bike as a parking warden was approaching, and as I was getting on he told me that would be a $100 fine. Ridiculous. I drove away before he could give it to me.