Parking blues irritate motorists, businesses
Recently the parking issue threatened to get ugly on Victoria Street outside Model Butchery where the owners say that random parking from nearby businesses has almost crippled their family-owned butchery,
Recently the parking issue threatened to get ugly on Victoria Street outside Model Butchery where the owners say that random parking from nearby businesses has almost crippled their family-owned butchery,
“However, after many months of complaining, the municipality eventually put in loading zones outside our shop to prevent cars from parking outside our shop the whole day, preventing legitimate a parking space,” said Butch Kassier of Model.
But this did not stop traffic officers from issuing a R500 ticket to a butchery customer who had pre-ordered a meat delivery and parked in the loading zone for less than ten minutes.
The driver, Owen Mulhatton, was not impressed, saying that there should be ‘some kind of perspective and difference between a real customer and those just taking a chance.’
There is almost some unhappiness that some parking meter heads have been removed from in front of the Uminzyathi building while the word R has been painted on the road demarcating a reserve zone.
Other business owners in the CBD have threatened to do the same as they feel Umzinyathi workers are ‘getting special treatment’.
