Motorists still find a car park despite Cavenagh St park closure a month ago
INITIAL reports from city motorists have shown the closure of Cavenagh Street car park hasn’t created congestion
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INITIAL reports from city motorists have shown the closure of Cavenagh Street car park hasn’t created congestion, with displaced parkers seemingly having filtered across the city’s remaining bays.
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City of Darwin economic development and tourism manager Josh Sattler said since closing on June 29, complaints and queries had been minimal.
“Anecdotally the impact of closing Cavenagh Street car park has not been significant, and motorists have dissipated across the city, relatively few complaints have been received by council,” he said.
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“More reliable data will be available following the quarterly report to September 2020.”
The full impact of the closure will be revealed in the next quarterly parking statistics report in October.
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