{"id":298531,"date":"2026-02-23T19:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T19:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/298531\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T19:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T19:13:08","slug":"parking-nightmare-aucklanders-claim-car-park-rules-make-navigating-streets-extremely-difficult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/298531\/","title":{"rendered":"Parking nightmare: Aucklanders claim car park rules make navigating streets \u2018extremely difficult\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nicol said it\u2019s a concern with her 78-year-old father and other elderly residents as there\u2019s \u201cno way\u201d emergency vehicles could fit down the street.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are 27 flats and each only has one car park, so people park anywhere they can.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey park on berms, curbs, yellow lines… everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

A further influx of cars is expected with 29 vacant houses on the street for sale.<\/p>\n

\"CarsCars parked up on curbs on Cherry Tree Place, Massey. Photo \/ Dean Purcell<\/p>\n

A Glendowie resident, who did not wish to be named, said the removal of minimum parking requirements was \u201cridiculous\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He said 17 units had replaced two pre-existing homes on Roberta Ave near an intersection, which had increased the number of parked cars.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo now at any given time there are about eight-10 cars parked outside,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s made turning in one of the directions dangerous because the view is almost entirely blocked.\u201d<\/p>\n

An active cyclist, the resident also believed bike lanes shouldn\u2019t be prioritised over car parks.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m all for bike lanes but to remove what little parking there was to install a lane is madness… it\u2019s putting ideology over common sense,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat if police or ambulance need to get through?\u201d<\/p>\n

He said on Taniwha St in Glen Innes, people have been left to park on yellow lines, footpaths and berms.<\/p>\n

Another Auckland resident, Jacqui Knowles, has had people towed from where she lives on Salisbury Rd in Birkdale.<\/p>\n

She said people park right up to the end of her driveway, which blocks her view and forces her into the middle of the road.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t see around them on to the road so most times when I\u2019m pulling out I\u2019m just taking a chance and hoping I don\u2019t get hit.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AA car parked extremely close to Jacqui Knowles’ driveway entrance, blocking the view onto Salisbury Rd as Knowles drives out of her property.<\/p>\n

Knowles has written to Auckland Transport which has not made any changes.<\/p>\n

She said infill housing on Eskdale Rd, a main thoroughfare, has increased the number of parked cars.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe council needs to paint lines on the road to show how close people can park to driveways,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

According to road user rules it is illegal to park within one metre of a driveway entrance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nicol said it\u2019s a concern with her 78-year-old father and other elderly residents as there\u2019s \u201cno way\u201d emergency…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[99505,22398,16717,198,3944,2741,36174,47753,37367,164299,3339,51928,27135,5812,97679,111,43,139,79327,69,14725,8143,30205,384,28650,6122,5412,21047,8229],"class_list":{"0":"post-298531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-anywhere","9":"tag-aucklanders","10":"tag-becoming","11":"tag-can","12":"tag-car","13":"tag-claim","14":"tag-difficult","15":"tag-extremely","16":"tag-frustrated","17":"tag-highdensity","18":"tag-housing","19":"tag-increasingly","20":"tag-lack","21":"tag-make","22":"tag-navigating","23":"tag-new-zealand","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-newzealand","26":"tag-nightmare","27":"tag-nz","28":"tag-options","29":"tag-park","30":"tag-parking","31":"tag-people","32":"tag-resulting","33":"tag-rules","34":"tag-streets","35":"tag-suburbs","36":"tag-they"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}