A lone parking space in Mosgiel blamed for causing congestion will remain.
In July last year, MosgielTaieri Community Board member Dean McAlwee said the single space in Gordon Rd, between The Warehouse car park exit and the former Countdown car park, had to go.
If a vehicle was parked in the P10 space, it blocked those motorists travelling in Gordon Rd who wanted to turn left into Factory Rd at the traffic lights. In rush-hour traffic, they could not drive around the parked vehicle because the vehicles waiting to continue along Gordon Rd, orturn right into Bush Rd, blocked the access.
He wanted the space to be removed and yellow no-stopping lines painted to help ease traffic congestion at busy times.
At a board meeting in Mosgiel earlier this month, chairwoman Sarah Nitis said the NZ Transport Agency had investigated and observed no issues with the car park. Therefore, the park would remain, she said.
Mr McAlwee said the decision by the agency to retain the park was ‘‘wrong’’.
‘‘But where do you go from here?’’ he asked.
‘‘Nowhere,’’ board member Martin Dillon said.
• The board request for the Dunedin City Council to installa parking restriction in Mosgiel to make it easier for motorists to access a public toilet has been granted.
In May last year, a regular user of the public toilet at the pocket park in Mosgiel, on the corner of Gordon and Factory Rds, asked the board to get a parking restriction sign installed on an existing car park to make it easier to access the facility.
Mr Dillon said the P5 restriction had been installed in a car park in Factory Rd.
