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Tuesday, August 28, 2012
When more spaces mean less space
In some UK town centres it can be quite difficult finding somewhere to park your car. I know I’ve had problems before when I’ve gone round and round for a while and then had to give up and search for roadside spaces down residential streets instead.
I don’t like parking up on a roadside next to someone’s home because I feel that I might be in the way. Obviously I don’t park in front of people’s driveways, but I always wonder if they look out of their window, see my vehicle sat there, and think ‘Now where’s Lucy going to park when she comes over today?’, or something similar.
Thankfully, many councils are trying to improve parking for motorists and are finding ways of increasing the number of bays available.
However, Leicester City Council recently showed everyone that creating new spaces isn’t as easy as you may have imagined.
Employing a contractor to paint new bays along a street, the council didn’t plan the work well enough and made a bit of a mess of it all.
Motorists found that when all the spaces were in use, there was only a gap a little under one metre left for drivers to fit through. Needless to say, you can’t fit a car through a gap of that size, and people were not pleased.
The mistake has since been rectified, and hopefully Leicester City Council will plan work better in the future…
I don’t like parking up on a roadside next to someone’s home because I feel that I might be in the way. Obviously I don’t park in front of people’s driveways, but I always wonder if they look out of their window, see my vehicle sat there, and think ‘Now where’s Lucy going to park when she comes over today?’, or something similar.
Thankfully, many councils are trying to improve parking for motorists and are finding ways of increasing the number of bays available.
However, Leicester City Council recently showed everyone that creating new spaces isn’t as easy as you may have imagined.
Employing a contractor to paint new bays along a street, the council didn’t plan the work well enough and made a bit of a mess of it all.
Motorists found that when all the spaces were in use, there was only a gap a little under one metre left for drivers to fit through. Needless to say, you can’t fit a car through a gap of that size, and people were not pleased.
The mistake has since been rectified, and hopefully Leicester City Council will plan work better in the future…
Photo © compujeramey via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
Labels: bay, car, driveway, Leicester City Council, motorist, parking, roadside, space, town centre, UK, vehicle
Friday, February 24, 2012
Big car and small spaces
It’s irritating enough going from shop to shop and feeling penalised when trousers that are labelled as being the same size fit in one shop but are too small for you in another.
Well, now there’s a similar problem being suffered by motorists parking in spaces provided by councils.
Fines are being issued to drivers who have parked their car in a bay that is too narrow or too short to fit their vehicle in correctly.
Now, this is all for the good of the road network, since cars overlapping onto the road could cause an accident, but there are two problems.
One – cars are reportedly 16% wider than they were four decades ago.
And two – different councils have different views of what being too big for a parking space entails.
Some councils feel that if the entire car is not within the markings, then it is too big, others feel that as long as the vehicle’s wheels are within the lines, all is well.
Until they all decide on one all-encompassing set of rules, motorists will remain confused and keep getting fines they thought they were safe from.
Very annoying. Now please excuse me – I need to drive into town to exchange these tiny trousers. Grrrr.
Well, now there’s a similar problem being suffered by motorists parking in spaces provided by councils. Fines are being issued to drivers who have parked their car in a bay that is too narrow or too short to fit their vehicle in correctly.
Now, this is all for the good of the road network, since cars overlapping onto the road could cause an accident, but there are two problems.
One – cars are reportedly 16% wider than they were four decades ago.
And two – different councils have different views of what being too big for a parking space entails.
Some councils feel that if the entire car is not within the markings, then it is too big, others feel that as long as the vehicle’s wheels are within the lines, all is well.
Until they all decide on one all-encompassing set of rules, motorists will remain confused and keep getting fines they thought they were safe from.
Very annoying. Now please excuse me – I need to drive into town to exchange these tiny trousers. Grrrr.
Photo © paulswansen via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
Labels: accident, bay, car, council, drive, driver, fine, motorists, narrow, parked, parking, road network, safe, short, size, spaces, vehicle