Got the Monday parking blues?

Frustrated said :

Doesn’t matter where you park, people know why you park in the corner spot, so they will park next to you, with the whole carpark virtually empty.

I park in the corner spot so I can get the toddler in and out without dinging someone else’s car… is this what you mean? Otherwise, the implication is that we have an epidemic of people who want to put their car doors in harms way just to put you out.

FarrerGirl said :

There is definitely a problem at Calvary. I doubt there would be anyone parking there who were not staying, working or visiting the hospital. I know more people need to consider car pooling, public transport and cycling options, however at the end of the day, there will always be a large number people needing to park there.

Much the same could be said of TCH, whose overflow parking consists of pretty much every spare bit of land (private or public) in a 1km radius…

KB1971 said :

poetix said :

Thank you number 1, because you allow me to say Spotto!

Spotto.

Damn you! You beat me every time……..

Every fifth time I’ll let you win, because I am so incredibly nice and non-patronising.

I tend to park at the end of a row if I can, or next to the pillars in the underground carparks, I have my reason for this, the main reason being that I like to get into my car from the door I got out from.

A few years ago I went to Spotlight when I was 7 months pregnant, when I came out to my car I became very distressed as there was a car parked very close to mine on the drivers side, as you might imagine a pregnant woman cannot just jump in on the passenger side and scoot across to the driver’s seat, so I had to wait, very unimpressed was I !!!!

poetix said :

Thank you number 1, because you allow me to say Spotto!

Spotto.

Damn you! You beat me every time……..

Frustrated said :

To be honest I dont blame people parking across two car spots in some locations.

The amount of car door dings etc i have got on my car from inconsiderate Canberra motorists is quite pathetic.
Doesn’t matter where you park, people know why you park in the corner spot, so they will park next to you, with the whole carpark virtually empty.

Ah no they don’t park like that to avoid getting dings they do so because they’re clueless.

Frustrated said :

To be honest I dont blame people parking across two car spots in some locations.

The amount of car door dings etc i have got on my car from inconsiderate Canberra motorists is quite pathetic.
Doesn’t matter where you park, people know why you park in the corner spot, so they will park next to you, with the whole carpark virtually empty.

You can’t be serious?

To be honest I dont blame people parking across two car spots in some locations.

The amount of car door dings etc i have got on my car from inconsiderate Canberra motorists is quite pathetic.
Doesn’t matter where you park, people know why you park in the corner spot, so they will park next to you, with the whole carpark virtually empty.

A few of the images in the slideshow appear to be from the Calvary Hospital car park…it really is ‘come as you are’ bushwacking Canberra style car parking. I used to work there and often parked on the gravel due to an extreme lack of parking in the area. I once had the pleasure of parking on an ant nest. Another time cars got stuck near the Specialist Centre due to a flash flood.

There is definitely a problem at Calvary. I doubt there would be anyone parking there who were not staying, working or visiting the hospital. I know more people need to consider car pooling, public transport and cycling options, however at the end of the day, there will always be a large number people needing to park there.

Madam Cholet said :

I looked at the slideshow and thought that they all looked normal – as in something you see every day – for Canberra – so much so that whilst it’s a bit annoying, we generally do nothing about it. Why is it that people insist on parking up on the pavement – even when there is nothing else on the road and the road is quite adequate?

We have unleased land opposite our house and the number of people who use that over their own driveways is ridiculous. No doubt the same people who would spout on about their green credentials, whack solar panels on their roof, a tank in the garden and keep chooks to eat the scraps, but feel ok to destroy the environment by parking their hulking great four wheel drive on land that is not even theirs just so they don’t have to do a car shuffle if they are home first.

I’ll see that and raise you my neighbour who uses the entrance to the firetrail between us as his visitor parking.