PARKING INSPECTORS TOUGHER ON DRY LAND

I HAVE received a lot of correspondence regarding the article I wrote last week on the houseboats that are permanently moored off Wave Break Island and in Bum’s Bay in the Broadwater.

It seems there is a mixed feeling among the wider community.

Some say it is disgusting that they stay for months at a time in one location assumingly emptying their toilet waste into the Broadwater.

Others say lay off them, they’re not doing anything illegal and they have every right to be there.

Whatever side of the fence you sit on one thing is for sure, and that is the waterways authority are certainly a lot kinder than parking inspectors.

This week I received a $70 fine for staying 10 minutes over in my Broadbeach parking spot.

Compare that to the houseboats that have overstayed their legal time limit – some of them for nearly three months – without so much as a ticket thus far.

We car drivers can only hope that the city parking inspectors cut us as much slack as the waterways authority cut the houseboats.

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