Over the past 30 years, West End resident Tim Mather has seen his street change from a quiet place where his kids could play cricket to a dangerous thoroughfare lined with cars parked bumper to bumper.
Mr Mather said traffic in the suburb was slightly out of control, but the problem was exacerbated by commuters who parked their cars in his street and then caught the bus.
Whynot Street is just two streets from Brisbane City Council's central traffic area, which enforces two-hour parking limits between 7am and 6pm Monday to Friday and 7am to noon on Saturdays for vehicles without a valid resident's parking permit.
"It's very difficult to find a park before about 10 o'clock at night. The commuters go and then people going to the restaurants park," Mr Mather said.
"It's particularly bad for us because we're just outside the two hour limit.
"There are a few times where I've had to park a few streets away to get back to the house."
Mr Mather said despite the suburb drastically changing since he had lived there, the traffic area zone had never been altered.
A council spokesman said the restricted traffic areas had been in place in the CBD and inner-city areas for more than 50 years and were designed to reduce the impacts of commuters parking out local streets where public transport is readily available.
"Brisbane City Council is committed to finding the balance between the needs of all road users and residents and understands that kerbside space is in high demand from residents, commuters, public transport vehicles, taxis, motorcyclists, cyclists and pedestrians," the spokesman said.
"Council welcomes feedback from residents for improvements or changes to restricted parking areas, however, will only institute new restrictions or change existing restrictions where there is overwhelming community support to do so."
In 2014 the council used the Brisbane Parking Taskforce to assess how they could manage on-street parking in the future.
This study led to the introduction of 15 minute free parking in the inner city, advisory signs to improve motorists' understanding of parking restrictions and the distribution of a parking guide to all households within restricted parking areas.
Mr Mather said the council did not seem to have any plan when it came to parking.
"I've not seen an infrastructure plan, there's just apartments going up willy nilly and the residents just aren't told. Maybe there is a plan, I'd be interested to hear," he said.
"I've got nothing really against the development it's just it seems to be happening without anyone thinking about what it's doing to the suburb.
"In some respects it's great, there's more people on the street and brought new colour but it's just crowded and there's cars rushing everywhere.
"You look onto those seas of apartment buildings and think they'll be there forever...it could have been done so much better and it's sort of too late.
"We still live with the memory of it when it used to be a quiet suburb."
The council spokesman said street parking was considered when assessing all development applications.
"Since 2014, council has created a new parking permit area in Taringa, in a residential area close to Taringa Rail Station, and in Teneriffe, to extend the existing Central Traffic Area restrictions," the spokesman said.
"These new restrictions were in direct response to community concern that residents were unable to park in their local streets due to the number of commuters.
"Council has repeatedly urged the state government to review the current allocation of park and ride facilities at public transport hubs across the city, to identify where expanded facilities are required to meet the growing number of public transport users.
"The recently released Connecting Brisbane report identifies that up to 42 per cent of all people commuting to Brisbane are travelling from other areas in south-east Queensland."
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