As Queen
Victoria Market Traders complain about the lack of free car parking for their
customers, Melbourne City Council embarks on a plan to further restrict the use
of cars in our fine city.
Melbourne
city councillor Cathy Oke said walking was the dominant mode of transport in
the city centre and city streets would come under more pressure as the
population grew.
Two-thirds
of all trips within the city centre are on foot and this is expected to rise to
80 per cent by 2030, the plan states. Cars, which make up 15 per cent of trips,
will be cut to just 5 per cent by 2030 if the plan succeeds.
”No city in the world is
designing their city for increased car travel,”
Cr Oke said.
Queen
Victoria Market competes with local and regional shopping centres who almost
all offer year round free parking for their customers. Shoppers who want to
load up their bags with food and other goods need the convenience of car
access. Our car parking fees are simply not competitive and this new push by
Melbourne City Council is not going to help.
COMMENTS:
19/04/2013 17:48:38 car parking "It seems to me, after all the rhetoric, about the old girl(the market) needing a face lift etc etc, unless there is parking, there will be no market full stop.
19/04/2013 17:48:38 car parking "It seems to me, after all the rhetoric, about the old girl(the market) needing a face lift etc etc, unless there is parking, there will be no market full stop.
I said before and i'll repeat. make the area around the market free to shoppers, Im sure the smart brains can figure a way. the food, fresh fruit will die if people can't come , and load up their goods." Andy
22/04/2013 12:43:34 Sth melb mkt "Yesterday,being Sunday,I had an opportunity to go to Sth Melb mkt. Very claustrophobic! quite a number of people, but as I say, the mkt is a small space so it can look like alot of people,not from the colorful spruiking our food people do, just people are visiting,in the deli section come meat section come fish section!! Awful to walk thru,people with trolleys,screaming children,and noisy, the butchers were way overpriced as compared to ours!!
In my humble opinion,this mkt is superfluous in our city,yes,unneeded,bring them over to us and develop the land this square box you call a mkt. stands on!!
I really really mean it!!
They have an hour long free parking bays around the perimeter,that were constantly changing cars a few disabled spots,and parking on the top.
IF WE ARE IN THE SAME CITY,WHY ARE PEOPLE SUBJECT TO PAYING FOR THE PARKING AT QVM and NOT AT sth melb" Rosalie Rockman