THE Hobart staple of parking for free at the Hobart Domain and walking into town will come to an end tomorrow.
The Hobart City Council will introduce parking fees across all of the popular parking spots in the Domain precinct.
Car parks at the Regatta Ground, Regatta Ground foreshore, TCA ground, Davies Ave and Upper Davies Ave will all be subject to $4 all- day parking.
Hobart City Council general manager Nick Heath told the Sunday Tasmanian yesterday free parking had been stopping people from accessing amenities at the Domain.
“It has been pretty chaotic,” he said. “We are trying to regulate and control it, so we don’t have ad-hoc parking on the Domain.”
Mr Heath rejected the suggestion the parking fees, which will apply between 8.30am and 6pm from Monday to Friday, would be lining council coffers.
“This is not revenue raising,” he said. “All monies will go back into implementing the Queens Domain Master Plan.”
The plan raises a number of concerns about parking.
“Car parking adds to the difficulty of getting around the Domain,” the plan says.
“On a normal day, all available space for free parking is sought after by commuters and there is often too little visitor parking in places, such as the RTBG [Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens] and at Domain House.
“User parking issues are made the more complex by city worker parking: all-day parking for people who work in the city and treat the Domain as a car park, not a park.
“There are over 700 free non-time-bound car parking spaces on the Domain representing some 5 to 9 per cent of the city’s total parking supply.”作者: 恋恋1983 时间: 2014-8-3 22:14
LZ帖子不给力，勉强给回复下吧作者: rambler 时间: 2014-8-4 20:55
想想SYD和MEL的CITY停车费，HOBART已经是天堂了。$4一天靠近市区，在MEL郊区中心区区域都远不止这个价格，不用说CITY了。
