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News
Boaties' efforts to stop pay and display get driven away
Monday, 14 May 2007
By NIC DALEY
• Howick and Pakuranga Times
A LAST-DITCH effort to stop boaties having to pay to park trailers at Half Moon Bay marina has been unsuccessful.
At a Manukau City Council transport committee meeting last Thursday, eastern councillors David Collings, Jami-Lee Ross and Dick Quax were outvoted on their attempt to stop the installation of the pay and display machines.
The project, (approved a year ago with funding in the Long Term Council Community Plan) was on the agenda in conjunction with the Manukau City Centre site, where the devices are also suggested.
The council says it needs more money to pay for the installation of the machines at the city centre parking areas.
Mr Ross took the chance to propose that all investigations into the pay and displays for Half Moon Bay marina be stopped, but the motion was lost.
“It’s really using council’s monopoly position on boat ramp parking at Half Moon Bay and abusing it,” he says.
Mr Collings understands the proposed Half Moon Bay ferry terminal involves moving the public boat ramp to a different location.
“So why do we bother [putting pay and display machines in] when it may not even be there?
“When major changes could be on the horizon, why bother? If it’s taken us a year and we’ve done nothing, are we now going to install them at enormous cost and then find we don’t even have them there for six months.”
Mr Ross and Mr Collings fear more boaties may park on surrounding streets, as some do now, in order to avoid the parking charge.
“The whole argument is that it’ll free it up because you’re limiting a scarce resource, but I don’t think it’s going to make any difference,” Mr Collings says.
“We’ve got an issue with overcrowding and [boat trailers] spilling into neighbourhood streets.
“If this was going to solve that I’d be all for it, but I see it just as a revenue collection exercise and I fear trailers will spill into surrounding streets even more.”
A recommendation that an additional $270,000 be provided in the 2007/08 Annual Plan will by considered by the annual plan committee.
