Motorcycles & Scooters Park Free in Sydney City
Okay. I went into the central business district of Sydney to check out the motorcycle parking and, sure enough, there were motorbikes and motor scooters parked in all kinds of places where they’d never be allowed to normally.
This photo (below) was taken at the north end of Clarence Street, where the road goes left to allow traffic to flow onto the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Bikes and scooters were everywhere on the pavement, and office workers from Kent Street and other nearby buildings puffed hurriedly on their cigarettes or sipped their paper cups of coffee before scrurrying back to their rabbit warrens in the towering office blocks.
And not a parking warden was to be seen, at least not writing out parking infringements for the two-wheeled transports. Rather a nice change… So thank you, Clover Moore.
I did notice however that the free parking spots for motorcycles, namely the unused spaces underneath the Monorail pylons in Pitt Street and Market Street have all been marked No Parking. So it seems to me the powers that be really do want to prevent motorcyclists from “getting away” with any free parking if they can.
Very mean-spirited, I call it.
I reckon the Sydney City Council will go back to its money-grubbing ways as soon as the Council elections are over. Wanna bet on it?