LINWOOD RETAIL PARK ONE-WAY SYSTEM CONFUSES SHOPPERS, STAFF, AND PERSON WHO DESIGNED IT
Six arrows. Three painted over. One Mitsubishi going the wrong way past Briscoes for the fourth time.
A retail park in Linwood has been running a one-way system since August. Nobody can explain it. Not the shoppers. Not the security guard. Not the management company.
Faded arrows on the tarmac point three ways. Two lead into a kerb. The third sends you back out the entrance, which is also marked ENTRANCE.
Shopper Maree Whitcombe, 58, gave up halfway through her third lap. "Came for an air fryer. Seen the back of Number One Shoes twice. Running low on petrol. The bloke in the hi-vis just shrugged at me!"
The security guard, who asked not to be named because he's "only on his second week", said the system was "sort of clockwise, except by Briscoes where it goes the other way". He didn't know why. A woman in a Hilux had sworn at him twice that morning. He didn't blame her.
A spokesperson for the management company said the layout was "under active review". It has been since June 2022. The original consultant had "moved on". The plans were "in a drawer somewhere in Riccarton".
A silver ASX has gone the wrong way past the loading bay four times this morning. The driver waved. Nobody waved back.
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Reader Letters
Garry (Halswell)
Back in my day, you followed the signs and that was that. Everything's a bloody puzzle now, like some sort of escape room just to get to Briscoes!
Maree_NZ58
Haha, I'm Maree! 😂 Still don't have my air fryer. Honestly tempted to park on the main road and just walk in!
wayward_wayne
These one-way systems are a ploy by the council. Keeps us all running in circles while they make interest on parking fines. WAKE UP SHEEPLE!
Sandra McKenzie
It's actually Linwood Avenue, not Linwood Park, for the retail park reference. People mix this up all the time!
BarryBishopdale
@Sandra McKenzie no one gives a bollocks Sandra, can we focus on getting to the bloody shops? Arrows should lead, y'know, the other way?