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Parking restriction plans Use of Port Hills track may become more difficult BRIDGET RUTHERFORD
NARROW: The city council is looking into whether more parking restrictions could be installed on Rapaki Rd to widen the road and make it safer. PHOTO: FRASER WALKER-PEARCE
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Using a popular Port Hills track could soon be more difficult after plans to restrict some parking to residents only. Rapaki Track is popular, especially in the weekends, with the city’s walkers, runners and cyclists who park on Rapaki Rd. But resident Mike Smith said this makes the street narrow and dangerous. The Spreydon-Heathcote Community Board has asked the city council to look into whether some parks on Rapaki Rd could be turned into residents only. The request comes after Mr Smith told the community board last week residents were concerned with the narrow width of the road, and cars parking on the yellow lines. The community board has requested a city council report looking at whether the resident-only parks could be installed, as well as painted lines marking individual parks. But deputy chairwoman Karolin Potter voted against the report. She said if more parking restrictions were installed it would drive people to park on nearby smaller streets. “You’re shifting it to other accessto-the-hill streets like Vernon Tce,”
she said. “Where do you want them to go?” A number of Rapaki Rd residents already had their own off-street parking, which meant extra on-road resident parking was unnecessary, she said. No parking restrictions which run from Erewhon Tce for 64m on the eastern side of the road were installed earlier this year. However, residents say people have been ignoring the yellow lines and parking there anyway. Spokes Canterbury chairman Don Babe said he thought there would be issues there. “I feel for some of the homeowners, people are imposing a little bit.” He said there were alternate transport options for people wanting to use the track, including taking the bus or cycling. For cyclists it was not a big deal if they had to park about 500m away from the bottom of the track, he said. “It’s actually quite a good warm up.” Chairman Paul McMahon said the board has asked for the report to determine the best way forward. The community board also asked city council staff whether more enforcement of the current parking restrictions could be done.
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