Our Traffic & Parking Study was prsented to Council in March 2010, the Executive Summary concludes:
“A survey of local residents to determine community attitudes and opinions about traffic and parking in Erskineville has found significant concerns exist around pedestrian and motorist safety, and lack of resident parking. 
Increasing volumes of traffic from commuters, commercial vehicles and swollen resident numbers as a result of new developments is placing an additional burden on narrow streets. There is significant use of local streets as rat runs, and widely observed examples of illegal driving as motorists exceed speed limits, drive against one way streets, ignore turning restrictions and fail to heed stop signs. Three quarters of respondents are deeply concerned about pedestrian safety with drivers ignoring pedestrian crossings around the Erskineville/St. Mary’s School and the village. Serious injury or death is a foreseeable consequence.
 Whilst greater pressure is being put on Erskineville residents through a steady stream of higher density developments approved by Council, there are no corresponding measures being in put in place to manage the increased traffic and greater competition for scarce parking. Over seventy percent of respondents wished to have parking restrictions extended or applied to their street to reduce the impact of commuter and visitor parking. 
A detailed management plan is required to ensure that the traffic and parking issues that trouble Erskineville are actively managed and remedied to ensure that the Village and local residents maintain their amenity.”
Friends of Erskineville will be meeting City of Sydney Traffic Planners in the next three weeks to scope this audit to ensure we cover all the Traffic & Parking issues relevant to our area.  The aim is to achieve resident only parking 0800 -2200 with a one hour non resident parking period, the introduction of a visitor parking scheme, similar to schemes operating in other areas of The City of Sydney. 
Council will need to commit to Rangers policing the restrictions on a consistent and regular basis.
Marrickville Council has adopted new parking restrictions for the Western side of King Street moving to 1 hour and 2 hour non-resident parking, up to 10pm.  We have alerted the City of Sydney to this change, which will obviously impact the streets adjacent to the Eastern side of King Street.