By Claire Ahuriri
North Shore City councillors have rejected the proposal to change the free parking at Constellation and Albany bus-ways to a charge of $2.
Instead, they are going to lobby the Auckland Regional Transport Authority and the New Zealand Transport Agency, since their cuts in subsidies are what brought this issue to the table in the first place.
Councillors feel that going ahead with paid parking would be a waste of time since the Super City Council will eventually take over anyway, and they have also pointed out regional unfairness in ARTA, which cleans the rail stations in other areas of Auckland, but leaves North Shore City Council to clean the bus-way stations themselves.
Councillor Chris Darby was criticised in the same meeting for leaking information to the media that the paid parking issue would be on the agenda.
Also, free parking will continue in the Anzac and Killarney car-parks in Takapuna.
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