It was obvious that since Perry Vale car park stopped being free that all those people who were parking there would end up parking on local roads. We have the ridiculous situation of empty car parks and packed streets, which make the roads more dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists and significantly inconveniences people who live in these roads.

The solution is to have a limited number of paid parking places in Perry Vale car park to keep a flow of people who use the local shops through the day, and the majority of the spaces should be free.

I now live too close to the station to ever wish to drive (that has not always been the case when I had somewhere to go after work and wanted to quickly pick up the car). But when I am going to an airport, parking at the bottom of the hill makes it much easier on my return than dragging a suitcase up the hill, and it would be embarrassing to get a taxi for a 1 minute journey. My point is that there are good reasons why local people should wish to drive to the station, but most are probably just being lazy (no law against that is there?)