SPOT on Paul Murphy ("We can't park issue of car access", Letters 1/3). Among the extra on-street parking spots that you mentioned being removed from Newcastle, there are of course the 280 parks that were removed from Hunter Street to make way for the light rail.
Yet despite the hundreds of parks removed from the city, apartment blocks still continue to be built, and none of them ever seem to be built with even close to the amount of car parks needed for the residents.
