The Case of the Dodgy Parking Signs

There are three very shonkily mounted parking signs attached to the railing of the Upper Queen St. motorway over-bridge.

Upon closer inspection, note the only thing keeping this parking sign from plummeting over the railing into motorway carnage, are three wire twisties, with the top one having already come off.

All it would take would be for somebody slightly drunk to swing past singing ‘Oughta be in Love’ and the posts go freefall.

Now in South Auckland, the motorway over-bridges have massive barriers to prevent teenagers from throwing objects onto the motorway for fun. (They think differently down there, I guess).

Yet, in central Auckland, the Auckland City Council seems to have thrown caution to the wind. Which is ironic given the amount bureaucracy, paperwork, and inspections home-owners have to go through to just build a 1.2m wall in their backyard, and yet wire-twisties are deemed acceptable for attaching parking signs to motorway over-bridges…