For some, the parking along the Princes Highway in the Bulli CBD creates a hassle, but it's a lifeline for local businesses.
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"If people don't stop there, we don't exist," said Kathryn McGuire, who owns KLM Styling.
Transport for NSW has stated clearways through the Bulli CBD "could form part of a broader solution" for traffic flow.
Some business owners believe it could be the only solution being considered.
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At present motorists have an issue with on-street parking on the highway outside the shops as it funnels two lanes into one along what is becoming an increasingly busy stretch of road.
In community feedback to Transport for NSW, plenty of residents mentioned the issue of driving through the Bulli, with one describing it as akin to a slalom.
If people don't stop there, we don't exist.
- Bulli business owner Kathryn McGuire on the issue of on-street parking
Some felt the existing clearways should be extended to the weekends as well, citing that there is plenty of parking - in the form of the Bulli station car park - just east of the CBD.
But Ms McGuire said, in her experience, if people can't park right out the front of her business, they won't bother stopping at all.
"People are so lazy, most don't even know [that parking] exists out there," Ms McGuire said.
She said she promoted the car park to customers all the time, even pointing out there is direct access to her shop via a laneway down the side of the premises.
"But I have so many people saying, 'oh there was a spot out the front so I finally pulled up'," she said.
"People are really lazy."
The thought of clearways along what is barely a 100-metre stretch of road has businesses in the area in fear.
For many of them, removing the parking would be seen as the death knell.
"Is anyone going to pay our rent when all of a sudden they close our businesses down? Is anyone going to buy our businesses? No," Ms McGuire said.
She felt it had taken years for the Bulli shopping area to develop an identity and added perhaps people needed to be a bit more patient when driving along the highway.
"People today need to develop some patience and know you might not get from A to B in five minutes but you can get there in seven," she said.
"It's a couple of hours in the afternoon, people should learn to cope with that. Do we shut our businesses at three or four o'clock in the afternoon?"