Careful how you park

The problem begins with car park operators trying to use the absolute smallest space size which has been designated by some book worm pen pushing traffic engineer to maximize the profits they can get out of the extra couple of spaces. I beat a parking fine which was imposed because my rear spare tyre was hanging over the minuscule space line they had painted on the road in my old 110. I went to court and the magistrate looked at the Council rep shook his head and dismissed the charge and no fine was imposed

Spaces should should be designed and installed to fit larger cars as well. Tell him to take it all the way and shame them on the way he has been treated.

They are doing the best to completely screw the parking in Ballarat too. Last time I parked down the street I found they have removed a heap of parallel parks and installed trees in there places ............. along with making the access to the remaining parks very difficult.

I must have spoken out aloud when I spotted how hard the parks were to get into ( along the lines of "who is the ****wit that designed this ****" ). I simply drove my ****box 4wd up and over all the gutters and paved areas and into the park... The laughter I heard I'm guessing is others agreeing with me [bighmmm]

Our council is desperate to kill off the city center and has been for years. You see big business intersets seems to run the council over the last 15years. So they desperately try to make the city center horrendous to deal with so people will drive to the big businesses built around town (ie: the big shopping centers).

seeya,
Shane L.

This story is an example of why I try to back the Defender into tight spaces, so I can have a couple of goes at getting it straight between the lines.
I remember one day I parked outside Coles next to a woman with a teenage boy who was getting out of her shiny expensive BMW. I was parked between the lines and the window was down.
"You can't park there - you'll scratch my car opening your door, " she said, or something similar.
Knowing my park was perfectly legal, I slowly opened my door, got out without my door touching her car, gave her an 'Up yours' grin and wave, and wandered off. I could see her kid smirking behind her back. Poor kid, to have to suffer a mother like that. [emoji53]

Mick, it would have been a very different story if your door had got a mind of it's own & opened.

"Murder on Main Street" perchance?[smilebigeye]

I would have thought in this day & age with all this enforcement crap, there would be National Minimum Standards for parking space dimensions no matter where it is?


Maybe I'm just dreaming?[bigsad]

Comments about the size of parking spaces have reminded me of something I have noticed lately about underground carparks.

I have never seen a concrete pillar in a carpark without scratches and paint from car panels. The mind boggles at how many cars there must be showing corresponding scars.

Yep, they can paint those columns all the colours of the rainbow as well, but why do they commence the painted lines right at the base of the column instead of away from it to give the drivers a fighting chance?[bigsad]

I had to park the son's Kia Carnival, which is LOOONG, in the car park at the new Northern Beaches Hospital in Sydney a couple of weeks ago, when the ninth grandchild was being born. The space in there are very tight. It took several goes each time. I parked rear in so the reversing camera would warn me about bumping, plus it was easier to get out going forwards. One time I barely missed scraping a flash Porsche. The car parks seem to be designed for Mazda 2s, not larger vehicles.

I drive a Hilux with bull bar on it and find myself in the city quite a bit - I park in multi story car parks regularly and always back in - the revering camera shows exactly where the back of the vehicle is and I put it as far back as I can but the front always sticks out around 600mm in front of the front line. So far no one that I know of has cleaned up the bull bar on the way past. [emoji56]

How does one park a Bentley there old chap?
As an aside: I saw a Bentley in a Brisbane car park. Left and right wheels on both lines of the parking spot (reasonably generous width). One side had a wall, the other side a Patrol, so old mate couldn't get the Bentley out.

One would park their Bentley somewhere else one would think. Maybe with some of these - plenty of room here...
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Lunch at Duttons today - alas can't afford anything here but they are happy for slobs like me to have a coffee and drool...