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The reduction in car parking should be supported—we need to be reducing the induced demand caused by car parking provisions in highly accessible areas such as Box Hill. The fewer cars, the better.
Introducing expanded social services, medical centre and child care, and then reducing accessibility by reducing car parking is a nonsence. How do they think mothers with small children are going to access these facilities, unless they happen to live next door? Older people with declining mobility, disabled people with physical problems, all need to be considered. Car parking should be expanded, not reduced.
Of course this makes sense. It's next to Box Hill train station, bus terminal, tram terminal, and future train line.
As for how will parents with small children access it? I spent years commuting with small children to Watts st. Child Care by tram (when I lived in Hawthorn) and then later by train (when I moved to Blackburn). That was before the council increased the rent and the child care provider quit the site (but that's beside the point here).
Central Box Hill doesn't need any more traffic, let alone cars that are stationary!
