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Large trucks are parking in the streets of a portside town and not in the stop built for them, and authorities want to know why.
Photo: CHLOE RANFORD/LDR
Representatives from New Zealand s two largest trucking associations say the culprit could be Port Marlborough s parking fees, but the port suspects truckies like being near their accommodation in Picton.
Whatever the reason, residents in the port town are divided on whether a solution should be worked into its redevelopment project, needed to make way for KiwiRail s new, larger Cook Strait ferries.
Residents have already given up part of an old rugby pitch for a truck stop after roads damaged by the Kaikōura earthquake left trucks arriving out of sync with ferries, and waiting around town.
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Truck driver Peter Griffin is one of several Nelson Square residents unbothered by large freight trucks parking nearby.
Large trucks are parking in the streets of a portside town and not in the stop built for them, and authorities want to know why. Representatives from New Zealand s two largest trucking associations says the culprit could be Port Marlborough s parking fees, but the port suspects truckies like being near their accommodation in Picton. Whatever the reason, residents in the port town are divided on whether a solution should be worked into its redevelopment project, needed to make way for KiwiRail’s new, larger Cook Strait ferries.