THE following comment was posted by Robyn Giles on the Central Western Daily’s Facebook page in response to a story about an increase in parking fines in the city …
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Orange City Council has a lot to consider:
- Half-hour parking in Summer Street does not allow enough time to do very much at all, or encourage shopping.
- The two-hour parking in most car parks is not enough time to shop and have lunch or a meal in town, especially for the elderly.
- Then there’s the ‘let’s throw a parallel parking space at the end of the road’ approach just to trap people. Inconsistency of types of parking and poor signage does not help people at all.
Good on the Orange City Centre car park going to three hours. I spoke to a parking officer in the car park under Coles the other day and was told Orange Central Square owned two of the four levels, and Kmart the other two.
Apparently Orange Central Square wants to change that car park to three hours, too.
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Has council considered Orange as an RV-friendly town? The only spaces I’ve seen, close to the CBD, are outside the Visitor Information Centre, with a one-hour limit, so they won’t spend much time or money in town.
These tourists bring money into the town, and they are a huge network, recommending places to each other.
Our CBD is dying since Myer closed. People from out of town shop elsewhere, Dubbo and Bathurst for example.
There is a lot to be done to bring Orange back to its glory days, and our current council seems out of touch with the reality of empty shops, dated buildings, and ridiculous parking options in town.
I sincerely hope the huge revenue raised by parking fines at least comes back to Orange to be spent wisely on improving our town.
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