Free parking equals happy shoppers

I would like to comment on the article (SunLive, October 31) ‘More than $1 million in parking fines issued' in mainly Grey Street and Devonport Road, Tauranga.

As a keen shopper I now avoid the main CBD because of these new meters. Apart from them being complicated, they are fiddly because you can't see the digits in the bright sun facing you the wrong way. Plus trying to process a receipt is another feat! In fact, I stopped a police woman to ask for parking meter assistance.

I have noticed many empty shops in these two areas and would encourage changes to bring people into this central business area to shop, banning meters to have free parking with a time restriction, of course. We would have many more happy shoppers and less shops shut. Come on Tauranga!

L Butler, Bellevue.

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