A Dunedin man facing a parking fine of nearly $200 alleged he had parked in the area for weeks beforehand with no problems and parking signage was confusing and hidden.<\/p>\n
But he appears to not be the only one falling victim to being in parks by Toit\u016b Otago Settlers Museum which are actually allocated for cruise buses.<\/p>\n
The man, who wants to remain anonymous, said he now faced having to pay a fine which would greatly impact his life \u2014 he will have to make choices between rent, food and power.<\/p>\n
The man said he regularly parked his car three times a week outside Toit\u016b on the one way heading south on State Highway 1.<\/p>\n
He parked his car just after 9am, $8 for four hours, and then went back just after 1pm to continue paying for more parking.<\/p>\n
But earlier this week he went back at 1.20pm to find his car missing.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2018It had just completely disappeared. There was no notice or what had happened. Where it had gone. Just gone.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
He asked a tour guide standing close by and he told him \u2018\u2018they\u2019ve all been towed because of the tour buses\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n
He alleged he never saw any signs around the area which said the parks were not available when cruise ships were in town.<\/p>\n
Having walked further down the road there was a small sign, high up on a lamp post, saying cars may not be able to be parked in the area because of cruise ship buses and to consult a Dunedin City Council website.<\/p>\n
He alleged it was a very small sign.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2018Tucked well away from where I was parking. Then I had a look on the website and some of the information they have got was wrong. Some of the days didn\u2019t seem to match up.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2018There are yellow lines for buses further down the road. But there is nothing around the carparks. And nothing to tell you not to park there.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Eventually he found out his car was at Reilly\u2019s Towing & Salvage and had it returned.<\/p>\n
He said the whole episode left a sour taste.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, the\u00a0Otago Daily Times\u00a0observed more cars being towed from carparks in the exact same area.<\/p>\n
The Dunedin City Council said they would supply a response tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Dunedin man facing a parking fine of nearly $200 alleged he had parked in the area for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-303889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303889","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=303889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}