Canberra Centre Parking System installation

This new parking system has only been installed in the past few weeks and they are still in “testing phase” rumour is it will be all working by mid december including a space count on the exterior of the car park and for each row.

niftydog said :

Apparently the toilets that wipe your bum for you are still being installed.

I want one!

Hmm, I was in there yesterday and it didn’t look like the system was working wonderfully well. There were cars parked in (quite a few) spots that still had the green light on over them.

I’m sure it works and is quite handy, but I would rather they had just dropped the price of parking instead of wasting time, energy and money on something so trivial.

It’s not going to stop people snaking spots, and is probably going to lead to little car park drag races when the lights go green, which sounds absolutely delightful.

To all those bagging it, wait till you use it – it becomes quite handy when you’re looking for a car space.

Catch the bus!

Seriously though… why not throw an orange light in as well. Then find some way to link each bay with the ticket machine, so when someone pays to leave… the light above their bay will turn orange while they make their way to the car… actually, after reading this back… stupid idea

Traffic lights are easy for those colour-blind: Red is at the top; green is at the bottom.

Bike/bus lanes are both appropriately marked in ways other than colour.

I would have thought ‘light/no light’ would work as well. After all, you don’t care if a parking spot exists if someone is already parked there.

Simo the point of having them as LEDs is that you can see them from right down the other end of the row and they use very little energy, if you’re close enough to see an X or an O, you’re close enough to see if a space is occupied the good old fashioned way.

Given that most drivers have to distinguish between red and green on a daily basis (traffic lights, bus lanes/bike lanes) I think the red/green system is probably the best fit.

The ones in Doncaster are fantastic, you can look 360 degrees around you and go straight to the end of a row or skip a few lanes, works a treat. My understanding of the ones at the Canberra Centre is that certain sectors haven’t had their sensors activate yet, which is why they are staying green.

Apparently the toilets that wipe your bum for you are still being installed.

Are the lights just green and red circles? I can’t tell the difference between green and red (colour blind). They should have symbols like X = taken and O = available.