{"id":622150,"date":"2026-10-06T09:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T09:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/622150\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T09:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T09:48:10","slug":"mayor-wayne-brown-gets-on-tools-to-remove-aucklands-dumbest-car-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/622150\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Wayne Brown gets on tools to remove Auckland\u2019s \u2018dumbest car park\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brown can be seen painting by hand with a roller and operating the line-marking machine in what he calls his \u201cfirst move at getting rid of dumb stuff\u201d.<\/p>\n

Signs protecting the park, which was in a bus lane, were also removed by Auckland Council.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll these signs to protect one car park, and the businesses here have got car parks on board anyway. We don\u2019t need any of that stuff,\u201d Brown said.<\/p>\n

The move is part of a campaign launched before the council took back control of the city\u2019s roads on October 1. <\/p>\n

Aimed at small, common-sense infrastructure improvements, the Quick Fix programme will involve the council implementing a series of everyday changes across the city.<\/p>\n

Brown first asked for the public\u2019s thoughts in August and has promised more changes based on that feedback.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re getting rid of a whole lot of unnecessary traffic lights around the city. We\u2019re doing stuff straight away that the public have told us about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Auckland Transport, meanwhile, will now only be responsible for running the city\u2019s public transport.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo endless paperwork or bloated budgets. Just simple, common-sense stuff that makes a real difference to people\u2019s lives,\u201d Brown said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brown can be seen painting by hand with a roller and operating the line-marking machine in what he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3952,6256,3944,3372,179396,6276,42,10934,43,90,8143,28875,61,50898,40,38,41,39,3542,6923],"class_list":["post-622150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-aucklands","tag-brown","tag-car","tag-dubbed","tag-dumbest","tag-gets","tag-headlines","tag-mayor","tag-news","tag-on","tag-park","tag-remove","tag-to","tag-tools","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wayne","tag-what"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622150","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=622150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}