Parking meeting fell short
I attended the parking study meeting at Marks Park for the Greenside Residents Association, and unlike the previous one, it was quiet and focused.
I think a lot more could have been achieved if they cut out the preamble, which had nothing to do with neighbourhood parking and traffic problems.
As Geoff Klass remarked, it presented us with the “solution” before it examined the evidence.
There should have been more consultation with communities before these ideas were presented.
In Greenside, for example, ideas to route traffic through East to West changed all their thinking, as well as the plan to park college student cars at Pirates Sports Club or use alley docking.
The police were told that without proper policing of both land use and by-laws, nothing will help.
The process needs an interpreter from the residents’ side. In the Johannesburg Metropolitan Action Group days, we interpreted because we knew what the residents wanted and understood the complex traffic concepts to help find solutions.
