People who commented on the Facebook post suggested installing CCTV cameras to monitor activity or gates to prevent vehicles getting into the carpark after dark. Others thought putting up barriers such as gates, fences or chains would ruin the area for others and that CCTV to identify the vehicles would be sufficient.
There was also a suggestion of setting up a specific area in Whanganui where "these blokes" could learn how to drive properly, learn stunt driving and how to service vehicles.
Police Senior Sergeant Shayne Wainhouse said he believed it would be difficult to set up and manage and he thought it unlikely that nuisance drivers and "boy racers" would want to be in a controlled environment.
"We get various places popping up where these people tend to congregate in cars," Mr Wainhouse said.
"We try to jump on it reasonably urgently. It helps us if people can grab some details of the vehicles. Don't get involved but, if you can, get the registration number and a description of the driver and any people in the vehicle.
"The registered owner is our first port of call. They are obliged to say who was driving the vehicle at the time."
Mr Wainhouse said the police were not aware of the carpark incident . "We haven't had any calls about it and I'm not aware of any ongoing issues out there," Mr Wainhouse said.
Police earlier this month said incidents of nuisance driving had increased and that police were receiving more than usual number of complaints.
Areas in Gonville were identified - including Alma and Koromiko roads, but skid marks, sometimes refered to as donuts, are also evident in Springvale and elsewhere throughout the city.
A 40-year-old local man lost his licence this month after he was convicted in court for doing donuts at busy Castlecliff intersection.
Meanwhile national media commentator Rachel Stewart, a Whanganui resident, has taken a swipe at boy racers in a hard-hitting opinion piece in the NZ Herald and other publications.
Ms Stewart says she's considering moving back to Wellington after three years of living next to a racetrack, claiming authorities are reluctant to tackle the problem.
"We reside on the corner section at the junction of two intersecting roads, which have now effectively become the equivalent of Manfeild raceway. Day after day, and night after night, snotty-nosed, pimply-faced little males in hotted-up pieces of predominantly imported Japanese junk, drive at speeds that would make Rocket Lab sit up and take notice," Ms Stewart writes.
"These imbeciles drift sideways up and down the road, tyres smoking, stereo pumping, beer cans flying. On occasion, they wipe out and I am left to repair my fences. They always leave the scene before I can get to them. If I could actually get to them, I worry what I will do."
Rachel Stewart's column can be read here.
