CBD Parking just got a whole lot easier!

ParkingSearch.com.au is the latest parking enterprise from newly formed car parking company Rentmy Carpark Pty Ltd.

Their new site enables drivers to locate parking station and open air car parks in major cities across the country.

Michael Dunne, Parking Search’s Managing Director, said “never before has an Australian website offered drivers such a simple and effective way to find parking. Because our listings have direct webpage links people can find up to date information on hourly rates, operating times, early bird deals and a range of other services in just seconds.

You can visit Parking Search at www.parkingsearch.com.au

Ever think Hobart was just a big country town? We’ll think again as it seems waiting lists are not just found in their Hospitals!

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The Mercury – City Parking Crisis

Author: MEGAN MCNAUGHT / April 08, 2010 12:01am

COMMUTERS are parking several kilometres from the CBD and trekking into work because of an inner-city parking shortage.

Others are joining three-year waiting lists in the hope that one day they will be able to park their cars in town.

Every morning before the sun comes up cars arrive at free parks near the cenotaph, the Queens Domain and the TCA grounds and workers continue into the city on foot.

Some walk more than 3km to reach their places of work and do the same distance in the afternoon.

John Devine, of Rokeby, parks near the cenotaph and walks 10 minutes to the Royal Hobart Hospital where he works in food service.

Mr Devine said he does so rain, hail or shine because there is no other option.

“I start work at 5.30am and none of the carparks in the city are open.

“Even if they were I probably wouldn’t park there because they are too expensive.”

Mr Devine said he always sees the same faces on his daily journey.

“Just about everyone I know that works in the city parks out of town and walks in,” he said.

Hobart City Council General Manager Nick Heath said work was underway to solve the parking shortage.

He said the council had recently completed a 240-space carpark on top of Centrepoint.

And Sultan Holdings is building a 550-space carpark on Argyle St, opposite the hospital, which is expected to open within 18 months.

Sultan Holdings also has approval to build a 750-space carpark in Bathurst St.

“Hobart is growing quickly but building carparks can be a slow process because you have to wait for the land to become available,” Mr Heath said.

“This is a short-term issue. We have a lot more car parks coming online soon.”

Mr Heath said many commuters would choose to park on the city fringe and walk in, regardless of how many car parks were available in the city, to save money on parking or as a lifestyle choice.

A spokesman for Sultan Holdings said there was a two to three-year waiting list for permanent parks at the Market Place carpark on Macquarie St.

“At the moment there is a huge demand for carparking in the city and not enough spaces to go around,” the spokesman said.

Is there a problem with Brisbane Council planning to increase the number of parking meters around the city fringes from 3750 to 9000? Surely not, after all who could blame them for looking to new revenue streams given the testing year we’ve all just had.

One point to note is that the majority of Pubs and Clubs will admit to relying on poker machine revenue to keep them going. Perhaps some Councils could improve their public image by taking a lead from the Pubs and Clubs.

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Brisbane Times – Council calls time: Brisbane parking meters to double

Author: Tony Moore / Wednesday, 4^th November 2009

The number of parking meters in Brisbane’s inner city will more than double under council plans to push out free parking on the CBD’s fringe.

The overhaul would see the council’s 3750 parking meters increase to 9000 and a tightening of the current residential parking permit scheme, which gives exemptions to city fringe residents who do not have access to off-street parking.

Demand for inner-city curb space and the alleged abuse of the current parking permit system is behind the push, however the council’s Labor Opposition has accused Campbell Newman’s ruling LNP of revenue raising.

“What is unstated is that this is about parking meter revenue and reducing the number of parking permits that will exempt residents from having to pay for meters. That is what it is all about,” Labor’s Cr David Hinchliffe told a council meeting late yesterday.

In the 2008-2009 financial year, 2900 Brisbane parking meters earned $7.5 million. Since July, about 800 more meters have been installed in the inner-city. About 5200 meters would be added under the changes.

The new meters have been earmarked for Herston, Bowen Hills, Kelvin Grove, Teneriffe and Newstead.

The council’s Labor Opposition has labelled the expansion plan a “grab for cash.”

However, LNP Deputy Mayor Graham Quirk told the meeting at City Hall the misuse of inner-city parking permits had forced the council to act.

Lord Mayor Campbell Newman said permits – which allow residents to park on inner-city streets without having to pay parking meters or pay parking fines – were being photocopied, given to neighbours and sold for up to $10 each in suburbs such as Woolloongabba.

“There are plenty of examples of that. There are examples in Councillor [Helen] Abraham’s [The Gabba] ward of people photocopying permits and things like that,” Cr Newman said.

“There is an issue and it needs to be dealt with.”

Currently, about 19,000 parking permits are issued to residents, most of them in the suburbs of Woolloongabba, Dutton Park, West End, Bowen Hills, Fortitude Valley, Kangaroo Point and St Lucia.

Under questioning from his Labor opponents, Cr Quirk admitted council officers had recommended charging permit holders a $10 administration fee but Civic Cabinet had dismissed the idea on Monday.

“There was a proposal for fees that was put up as part of a submission and it was rejected,” Cr Quirk said.

“The point of the matter is that the fees that were part of that submission could only come about because of a Labor law which was introduced under the signature of Cr Hinchliffe some years ago.”

Cr Quirk said Labor councillors in 1996 passed a local law giving the council the ability to charge permit fees of up to $70, or $210 for a second permit.

“That was the provisions that Labor were going to be introducing into the Robertson/MacGregor traffic area plan,” he told the meeting.

Cr Hinchliffe said no fees had ever been charged.

“For the last 14 or 15 years since that parking scheme was implemented…there has not been one brass razoo extracted from residents in the way of a parking fee.”

Cr Newman accused the ALP of “crying wolf” over the parking scheme.

“This is good public policy. It is really only an add-on to what they proposed many years ago, which they are now disowning at rate of knots and it should be supported by them and all members of the council this afternoon.”

The new policy was backed 16 votes to 10, with Labor councillors opposing the change.

This ambitious project is now gaining significant momentum, thanks to the support of Australia’s two largest Parking Companies – Secure Parking and Wilson Parking.

With over 400 Parking Stations already listed, drivers across the country are able to find the perfect car park in seconds thanks to our market leading search engine.

You can find out more about the project at – What is the APS Project?

Renting out car spaces is the latest great idea that people have found to help pay off their spiraling debts and breathe a little easier during these difficult economic times.

Michael Dunne, Managing Director of RentmyCarpark.com.au says “most people don’t even know they have such a valuable asset right under their noses. Any space can be a money spinner and people always need spaces to park their cars, trucks, boats, caravans. People are always on the lookout for cheaper storage alternatives too”.

An advertisement on the Rentmy Carpark website costs $10 and the ads are listed for six months, so it’s pretty cheap to test the market for your space. The company acts purely as an advertising service and therefore they take no commission once you find a renter for your space.

Depending on the area that you live in rental returns from your space can range from between $25 per week to a respectable $150 per week.

Mr Dunne said “although any space could potentially be rented out the most popular searches tend to be for car or storage spaces near city centre’s, train stations, universities, sports stadiums and beaches.”

Rentmy Carpark is set up so that you can advertise your space as either Long term (weekly rates), or Short term (daily rates). You can also specify the days and time that your space is available, meaning that a space doesn’t need to be available 24/7 for you to earn money by renting it out.

More information can be found by visiting RentMyCarpark.com.au.

For many Sydney motorists the fact that their city has been ranked as the World’s fifth most expensive place for parking will come as no surprise. However most of them may not be aware that from last week a CBD car park just got even pricier.

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Livenews.com.au – Sydney CBD boasts some of world’s priciest parking

Author: AAP / Tuesday, 7^th July 2009 12.37 PM

Sydney’s CBD is one of the priciest places in the world to park a car, outranking Manhattan, Zurich and almost every city in the Asia Pacific.

The average cost of parking a car in Sydney’s CBD is $733 a month, making it the fifth most expensive city in the world, property researcher Colliers International’s annual parking rate survey has found.

The only more expensive city in the Asia Pacific for parking is Hong Kong, where the average price is $US748 ($A939).

And the price of parking in Sydney will be even higher from this month. The survey was carried out before the NSW government increased its parking space levy by $87 a month on July 1.

The survey found the City of London was the most expensive location to park a car in the world on a monthly basis at a average cost of $US1,020 ($A1,281), followed by London’s West End at $US955 ($A1,199) a month and Amsterdam at $US805 ($A1,011).

America’s most expensive area was Manhattan in New York, with a median monthly rate of $US550 ($A690).

Surprisingly, it is also more expensive to secure a monthly car space in Sydney than it is in Tokyo, where it costs on average $US525 ($A659) a month, or Zurich where the average is $US515 ($A646).

Parking in Brisbane’s CBD is not cheap either.

According to the Colliers survey, Queensland’s capital is the seventh most expensive place in the world to park, at $660 a month.

In Perth’s CBD, the median monthly cost of parking is $645, and in Melbourne’s CBD it is $425.

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Creating your ad is really quick and easy. Simply follow our ad creation prompts to enter your space details, rental conditions and profile info. Once you make your ad payment you will have full access to your personal My Homepage account.

Your Homepage account has many exciting features including your My Homepage Dashboard.

Your Dashboard features include:

• Summary of Ads created
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You only ever pay us the cost of your advertisement. We take no commissions and all email correspondence, rental agreements and rental payments are made directly between yourself and your chosen renter.

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• Ability to amend, copy or delete Ads
• Create additional Ads
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• Ability to share Ads on Facebook

If you have any sort of space available to rent out then think about this: A carpark doesn’t have to be a line marked area of pavement. If you can fit a car in it then it’s definitely a carspace and it may also be a potential boat, caravan, or general storage space as well!

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