The people who are parking there are 95% people who work in those shops. There's not a lot of parking in downtown P'burg, but that's a whole different issue. According to the brilliant minister who removed the bollards to begin with, it wasn't to provide more parking, as it always was illegal to park there, but people did it anyway, before the bollards were placed there. The minister said he did it to help pedestrians. Well, guess what? The ultimate effect has been to make it more difficult for everyone to navigate the area, be they walking or driving. This guy doesn't think things through. Again, this is the same dude who thinks it makes sense to re-route the Beacon Hill Road.