‘Stop parking in our suburban streets’: Residents fed up with Paradise bus exchange traffic
RESIDENTS close to the Paradise bus interchange are fed up with commuters parking in their streets and say soon-to-be-introduced 3-hour time restrictions won’t go far enough. Here’s what they want.
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MORE side streets around Paradise bus interchange are becoming congested with cars as O-Bahn commuters battle for space, increasing pressure on the State Government to find a permanent solution.
Earlier this month, Port Adelaide Enfield Council voted to introduce parking restrictions along a stretch of Riverside Grove in Dernancourt to prevent commuters using it as an all-day carpark.
The restrictions mean parking will only be allowed on the dead-end street for three hours between 8am and 6pm, Monday to Friday.
The changes put further pressure on the State Government to provide additional parking for commuters, after it scrapped plans to build a multistorey carpark at Paradise interchange last year.
Woodmere Ave resident Kym Tilbrook said it was up to the State Government to fix the problem.
“Every day there are regulars who are parking in the street day in and day out,” Mr Tilbrook said.
“There are people who park opposite my driveway and we can’t get the four-wheel drive out because it is a reasonably narrow street.”
“It is out of control.”
Athelstone resident Celeste Valeza-Williams, who catches the O-Bahn from Paradise to the city every day, said she often struggles to find a park.
“After 7.30am on a regular day you won’t find a park in the interchange area,” Ms Valeza-Williams said.
“It is quite difficult especially when you are trying to get to work.”
Under the plans, no parking at all times will be introduced on the corner of Riverside Grove and Willowbrook Rd.
The area around Paradise interchange sits at the border of the Campbelltown, Port Adelaide Enfield and Tea Tree Gully council districts. Representatives from all three told the East Torrens Messenger parking in the area was an issue.
The Transport Department did not respond before deadline, but last year said additional parking was “not a priority” at the interchange.
The O-Bahn is used by 31,000 people each weekday.
The new parking restrictions will be introduced in the next week.
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