Week 2 Parking Poll Answers

By doing the parking poll survey and putting it on social media we got a range of different responses from different people in different ages groups and mainly in Wellington. It was interesting reading some of the answers and we noticed that a lot more people then we expected had the same view around parking and the majority of them thought that parking was a source of stress and anxiety. This survey was a great way of gaining other peoples knowledge around the topic especially as there isn't a huge amount of stats in New Zealand.

Answers:

Why people don’t use their care frequently:
-Gas prices to high
-Cost of parking
-some people live close to where they need to go so there is no need to drive

Reasons for car use:
-to get to and from work
-convenience
-activities and leisure
-because public transport isn’t great

Is parking a cause of stress and anxiety and why?
-hard finding a park
-car parks are too tight
-Roads are too busy to be able to get into park
-not trusting others about their car
-fear of damage to their car
-cost of parking
-time pressure of parking and stopping traffic flow

Other stress or anxiety with parking
-safety of their car and the risk of someone stealing it.
-busy streets and holding up traffic
-risking car being towed
-parallel parking
-bad drivers

Where do you park?:
-driveways and garage
-residential parking
-street parking

Parking spot while out and about:
-Public parking
-parking buildings
-free parking
-University parking
-private parking

Through this, we discovered that many answers went throughout. some of peoples worries through the topic was about the cost of it all and struggling to find a car park. Most people said that they worry about time pressure too, whether it being late to a meeting or event or if it was just holding up traffic by trying to get into a tight spot beucase the cars around hadnt left much space in the  park beside.



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