Proposed recovery of parking spaces.

The number of places that it is hoped will be recovered are shown marked with an X.  There are possibly as many as thirteen.  There are thirty six existing parking spaces, shown circled.

There is a potential 35% increase in the parking spaces available in the circled area.





NOTES

"No Standing" at 19 Sutherland Avenue.

• There is a 4 meter "No Standing" zone outside No. 19 Sutherland Avenue, Paddington.  If this were removed there would be a continuous 18 meter stretch of road, which would accommodate about 4 cars, (if they were not all large cars).
• The footpath in Sutherland Avenue is about 800 mm wide (about the width of a normal doorway).   The "No Standing" sign was ostensibly a safety feature, and was installed to stop vehicles parking across the doorway of it's retired (car-less) occupant.  Since then No 19 has aquired an additional occupant and car.

The Five Spaces in Sutherland Avenue between Elizabeth St and Elizabeth Lane.

• These five (actually six) spaces existed until quite recently.  The owner of 97 Elizabeth St. complained that trucks were scratching the wall of his building because of the road camber.  Council took the cheap way out, and moved the parking to that side of the road, in the process "losing" five spaces.
• I asked a builder how much it would cost to raise the road.  His estimate was "about $6,000".
• When confronted with this quote Mr. Hatton, chairman of the traffic committee stated that WMC council's estimate was "much higher, due to drainage problems", but declined to say how much higher.
  

The six and a half spaces in Elizabeth Street.

• It is envisaged that these six/seven spaces might become available if the footpath were to be extended into the street as "peninsulars" that would then guide turning traffic around the parked cars.

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