Free parking for Wollongong CBD to start on Saturday

Kate McIlwain
Updated August 29 2016 - 5:18pm, first published 2:00pm
Free weekends: Wollongong Central has finally relented to public pressure and will introduce two hours of free parking on weekends. Picture: Adam McLean.
Free weekends: Wollongong Central has finally relented to public pressure and will introduce two hours of free parking on weekends. Picture: Adam McLean.

For years, Wollongong shoppers and retailers have bemoaned the CBD’s lack of free parking, with many residents purportedly avoiding the inner city due to parking station rates and council meters.

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Kate McIlwain

Kate McIlwain

Journalist

For more than a decade, I've helped the Illawarra Mercury set the news agenda across the region. Currently I'm the paper's health reporter - covering the stories of Illawarra workers and residents in the wake of a global pandemic and at a time where our health systems are stretched to the limit.

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