Making parking work for everyone
The City of Burnside has launched the Good Neighbour Parking initiative to encourage residents and visitors to be considerate when parking on Burnside's streets.
City of Burnside CEO, Julia Grant, said that issues and concerns about parking are one of the main complaints that Council receives from residents and visitors.
'Leading into the busy holiday period, Council has launched our positive Good Neighbour Parking initiative to encourage a sense of neighbourliness and consideration when parking in our streets,' Ms Grant said.
'We aim to make parking work for everyone,' Ms Grant said. 'These days, cars are bigger, there are more on the road and over half of households now have two or more vehicles, which makes parking on our local streets a lot trickier'.
The campaign features bright and colourful postcards that will be delivered to all properties in the inner city suburbs of Rose Park, Dulwich and Eastwood, and the streets surrounding Burnside Village; locations that all experience high-demand for on-street parking. Vehicles parked in these areas will also receive a postcard placed on their windscreen to remind them of some of the Australian Road Rules and local restrictions in a light-hearted way.
'On-street parking is a shared public space for everyone', Ms Grant said, 'our residents, visitors and businesses all depend on it, and Council's role is to manage this space fairly and safely'.
'With more cars on the road and bigger vehicles than ever before, parking has become a challenge that requires everyone's cooperation and shared responsibility,' Ms Grant said.
'While this initiative is only a small piece of the puzzle when it comes to traffic and parking management, it can go a long way to diffusing rising tensions on our roads,' Ms Grant said.
The Good Neighbour Parking initiative is part of Council's flagship Love where you Live campaign that will infuse a sense of positive optimism in the city. It is an overarching campaign to engage the community in upcoming key work such as the Local Housing Strategy, Good Neighbour Parking campaign, City Masterplan Code amendments as well as attracting residents to enrol to vote and/or become a candidate at the next Local Government elections.
