Letters to the editor: Two hours of free parking is not enough time

A reader believes the first two hours in a parking building should be free. Photo / File

In the Bay of Plenty Times (January 14), a story compared money collected in parking fees.

My question is why do the comparisons only go to June 2020, surely it is only a push of a computer button to go up to December 2020.

Two hours of free parking is not enough time to go to movies and have lunch. I would have thought that the first two hours in parking building would be free but no, fees apply from the minute you enter car parking building.

Wendy Galloway
Omokoroa

Praise for fellow letter writer

Huge applause to Mr Prendergast, (letters, January 14, Calgary's [rubbish] system similar but more costly) someone actually fact-checking one of the classic knee jerk letters sent in.

Love the world-class service at a world-beating price line and from everything I have seen it will help us catch up with the rest of the world rather than the third world system we currently have.

Mr Prendergast rebutted Tony Fellingham's letter on January 12 where he argued a waste collection system like that used in Calgary, Canada would be more appropriate for Tauranga than the system proposed by Tauranga City Council.

Andrew Sommerville
Bethlehem

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