Vertical car parking machine - GIF

[ranald]

I'd really like to have one of those vehicles now at their condition then.
In the 1960's when I did year 12 at high school (for graduation to uni or civie street), we had to write an essay about fixing the parking problems & the use of cars in the CBD of the city of Brisbane. Those days it had a whopping population of about 600,000=ha,ha. My idea was to use the floors above &/or below the ground level for parking in high rise buildings, shops etc and to reduce the price of public transport. I was "failed: for my rediculous suggestions. Today we have such stupidity & with well over double that population there is still congestion. It takes my son about 2 hrs to travel from north lakes to the CBD on public transport (combination of walking, a bus & 2 trains) . Governments allow developments of areas without properly considering the infrastructure. Brisbane used to be in the top 3 biggest municipalities in the world= in 1925, a precedent was set when 20 city, town & shires amalgamated to form a more effective council : the knockers said it would not work. In recent times Melbourne & Sydney have basically copied the amalgamation of some councils for efficiency, forced by their state governments. The savings in top admin alone is astronomical eg: 1 CEO instead of 20, 1 deputy Ceo instead of 20, Less Plant & equipment, Less depots to house the plant