The main goal of this petition is to work with the council to come up with some sort of solution for not only workers but also for customers/consumers to make the city thrive again. Parking prices are rising as well as fines, Workers that arrive early to the city will take on street parking forcing consumers to search for accessible parking, If that is not available then the best solution is to go to the lakes, Bayfair or even Papmoa which has accessible free parking. I don’t have the solution to the problem but I do have a few ideas that may help towards figuring out the right solution. The public transport can be very unreliable at times and for someone like me who works till late hours, busses are not an option as they do not run past about 8pm so this will lead to having to rely on taxis or ubers to get home. We need some kind of bus service that runs later for hospitality workers as were all open quite late and it would mean that the busses would then be an option but unfortunatley it is not an option at this stage. Another option could be to have a shuttle from somewhere like sulfur point that will do a couple of trips to and from meaning we will utilize a carpark that normally has a very large quantity of space. Another solution could be to have a centralized main carpark for workers in the CBD that is only accessible via a parking pass.

These are steps towards a solution for this problem. I feel strongly that the best solution is the parking lot idea as not only would workers have a consistent source of parking cars it would free up so much space for patrons on the street with easy access to stores without having to walk quite a distance. My manager is from Lyon, France and said that they have passes for workers that are free for parking because there is such a high rate of people that drive they needed the passes for workers as it was almost impossible to park. I have a hospitality background and it is already hard enough in this industry with wage cost rising, staff shortages, food cost rising and that’s not even the lot. This is why I feel so strongly because it’s a hard industry already with low pay rates and I pay $55 dollars a week just to come to work let alone trying to find a park, getting fines on top of that, Things are just getting out of hand.