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Large trucks are parking in the streets of a portside town and not in the stop built for them, and authorities want to know why. Photo: CHLOE RANFORD/LDR Representatives from New Zealand's two largest trucking associations say the culprit could be Port Marlborough's parking fees, but the port suspects truckies like being near their accommodation in Picton. Whatever the reason, residents in the port town are divided on whether a solution should be worked into its redevelopment project, needed to make way for KiwiRail's new, larger Cook Strait ferries. Residents have already given up part of an...

CHLOE RANFORD/LDR Truck driver Peter Griffin is one of several Nelson Square residents unbothered by large freight trucks parking nearby. Large trucks are parking in the streets of a portside town and not in the stop built for them, and authorities want to know why. Representatives from New Zealand's two largest trucking associations says the culprit could be Port Marlborough's parking fees, but the port suspects truckies like being near their accommodation in Picton. Whatever the reason, residents in the port town are divided on whether a solution should be worked into its redevelopment pr...