Old photo sparks traffic discussion on centre parking and single lanes

Historic photo shows centre parking and a single lane in Nambour’s Currie St. Some residents want to bring back the concepts.

This old photo of Currie Street, featuring its central parking and single lane, sparked a vibrant conversation on Facebook last week.

Residents had their say about parking, traffic flow and traffic calming ideas for Nambour’s Currie Street.

Robyn: “Nooo. While I’d love more parking for the main street, going down to one lane will just create a huge bottleneck.” 

Peter: “Centre parking is a ridiculous idea. It’s dangerous, narrow lanes, plenty of other options. Get rid of the right turn lane from Currie St (heading north) into Lowe St.” 

Pete: “Great idea. Should have been done when the bypass was put in. Lots of regional towns use it and it passively slows the traffic speed down and makes high streets safe. There’s cars doing 70-80km regularly through (Currie St).”

Trevor: “We have had centre parking in Nambour before when the National Highway ran through town. No doubt you will get engineers saying it doesn’t comply with their current handbook but we are applying 2022 rules in towns that were built 100 years ago. No parking spaces ...No business.”

Vivienne: “When we had centre-parking Currie Street was the Bruce Highway going through! It worked then. The space is still there. Just some proper forward planning and decent coordination of traffic lights and it would be a cinch.”

Melissa: “When council moves staff out to Maroochydore you should see more parking.”