![Church St metered parking spots at 9.45am yesterday. Picture: KEN ROBERTSON Church St metered parking spots at 9.45am yesterday. Picture: KEN ROBERTSON](/images/transform/v1/resize/frm/silverstone-feed-data/bd8f1011-4597-4d42-8b35-59dd891e8a16.jpg/w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
Church St metered parking spots at 9.45am yesterday. Picture: KEN ROBERTSON
![Rada Jones tries to insert $2 into a faulty parking ticket machine on Keira St yesterday, as many spaces remained empty. Picture: KEN ROBERTSON Rada Jones tries to insert $2 into a faulty parking ticket machine on Keira St yesterday, as many spaces remained empty. Picture: KEN ROBERTSON](/images/transform/v1/resize/frm/silverstone-feed-data/d42944bd-6c07-4aa2-83c1-243085da161a.jpg/w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
Rada Jones tries to insert $2 into a faulty parking ticket machine on Keira St yesterday, as many spaces remained empty. Picture: KEN ROBERTSON
![Regent St outside Australian Health Management at 4pm yesterday. Picture: DAVE TEASE Regent St outside Australian Health Management at 4pm yesterday. Picture: DAVE TEASE](/images/transform/v1/resize/frm/silverstone-feed-data/8c20b998-9879-464b-84e7-caf03ffd7b72.jpg/w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
Regent St outside Australian Health Management at 4pm yesterday. Picture: DAVE TEASE
![Keira St between Burelli and Ellen streets at 1.08pm yesterday. Picture: KEN ROBERTSON Keira St between Burelli and Ellen streets at 1.08pm yesterday. Picture: KEN ROBERTSON](/images/transform/v1/resize/frm/silverstone-feed-data/f0fb1f47-66d3-4a09-8739-a4949445475e.jpg/w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
Keira St between Burelli and Ellen streets at 1.08pm yesterday. Picture: KEN ROBERTSON
Shoppers looking for a parking space in Wollongong's city centre were spoiled for choice yesterday, as long as they were prepared to reach into their wallets for a $2 coin.On the first day of metered parking, some CBD streets were virtually deserted and most had only a handful of parked cars scattered along them.Traffic congestion became a distant memory with significantly fewer cars queuing at traffic lights or driving laps around the city in the hunt for a parking space.
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