Plan to fix Wollongong's beach traffic woes with pop-up car parks

Kate McIlwain
Updated October 20 2020 - 5:17pm, first published 5:00pm
The car parks at North Wollongong and Fairy Meadow Beach are less than 1km apart, and can be linked by the free shuttle in mere minutes, but one is always packed while the other rarely fills up. Pictures: Robert Peet.
The car parks at North Wollongong and Fairy Meadow Beach are less than 1km apart, and can be linked by the free shuttle in mere minutes, but one is always packed while the other rarely fills up. Pictures: Robert Peet.

Parks and verges around some of Wollongong's busiest beaches could be turned into temporary parking spaces this summer, if one councillor's plans to combat high traffic volumes are put into action.

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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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