Is this a sight for sore eyes or what?
How good would it be to turn up to a car park in Campbelltown and find it deserted.
Stop dreaming, OK?
Parking shortages are getting worse and worse in the Campbelltown CBD and soon it will be so bad council will have no alternative but to introduce parking meters in the central business district.
The daily parking nightmare begins after 9am and doesn’t let up till after dark.
So what is Campbelltown Council doing about it? What has it been doing it about for the past 20 years?
Well, the answer is a bit like that song about war – what is it good for? Absolutely nothing.
Well, that’s not strictly true because they have done a lot of one thing – talk about the need for more parking.
But like a lot of other infrastructure, this council has just sat back and talked, and talked and talked.
Then it stopped for a moment to allocate almost $1 million for an all weather surface for a football ground used by a local team that’s playing in the third tier of soccer in Australia.
Good luck to the Macarthur Rams, but surely this reflects appallingly wrong priorities by the council.
Adding parking infrastructure can boost the local economy and create jobs, something that we could with around here.
The thing is all of the councillors are decent, solid and proud Campbelltown people, but for some reason they’ve found it easier to stop development than to nourish it.
As part of the four year term they hiked up our rates and have used some of the millions of dollars they have raked in to fix bits and pieces around the area.
Things like change rooms at ovals, children’s playgrounds, new public toilets and so on.
Which is all well and good, but missing are the big infrastructure things like more parking that would really attract more businesses and jobs here.
