What’s the difference between opening and closing?
Central Geelong’s Civic Car Park car park currently closes at 6pm most weeknights.
But City Hall this week announced the car park would begin “opening“ later in response to increased night trade in Little Malop Street”.
The release went on to say the car park would trial extended opening hours to 11pm Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, midnight on Thursday and continue closing at midnight on Friday and Saturday.
So it appears the car park will actually open at the same time but close later.
It’s an open and shut case.
The Independent’s story last week on parking woes at Cunningham Pier has put the spotlight on another issue as well – trying to get out of the place.
A service lane accessing Cunningham Pier also accesses an adjacent council car park, so every evening a glut of cars forms as drivers try to exit on to Western Beach Road.
A keep-clear zone on the northern side of the road is often ignored by drivers and more motorists seem to be taking the foreshore drive option to traverse the city.
The keep-clear zone needs to extend right across the road to give escaping pier motorists a better-than-even chance of being on their way without risking a fender bender.
There must have been a Holden Captiva convention (pictured) at Deakin University’s Waterfront campus this week.
There they were, six cars of the same make and model all neatly lined up along the waterfront car park opposite the uni.
Five were all white, with one black car among them, just to prove every family really does has a black sheep, or a black Captiva at least.
Double Take had no idea the vehicle was so popular.
