23 September 2013

Monday Parking Blast

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So a Monday has gotten right up in your grill has it?

Well I know how to deal with Mondays. You parking photo them right in their stupid Monday faces!

Here’s some ammo, now you show that Monday who is boss!

If you’d like to help restock the RiotACT armoury with more anti-monday parking photos, send them to images@the-riotact.com.

Be sure to tell us what name you would like to be credited with, and use the word “parking” in the subject line.


1. Poetix sacrifices much:

School of Music, Saturday. I put down my ‘champagne’ to take this.

Drunken Bird's Eye View

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2. Ledanta gives credit where credit is due:

I suppose he left a little gap for the pedestrians

SACRIFICE

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3. Aeek feels for the Taxi drivers:

Woden night. The taxis must hate that bollard, used to Uturn there all the time.

Aeek

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4. Tristan’s apartment has a lot of work that needs doing:

Took this at the entrance to my apartment block’s parking. Tradesmen park like this in both entrances on an almost daily basis.

Tradestan

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5. Jason needs no words:

Silence Golden

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6. Joshua isn’t 100% sure:

Outside the Hellenic club in civic, pretty sure you’re not supposed to park on the pavement.

Probably right.

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7. Reprobate guards our Southern borders:

This group of cars – mostly P platers – have been driving across the pedestrian area of Woden Town Square to park all day near the Oxygen cafe stairs for the past couple of weeks. Sometimes see tradies utes around the area if they are doing shop renos but not these cars…

Footcare?

Pic from a while back at Mawson. Contrary to what you would assume, the BMW was parked first, THEN the Corolla came along and joined the piss poor parking party. The dude in the ute then squeezed into his spot, with about 5mm of gap between his rims and the kerb to the right.

Drift

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8. Blackice puts it plainly:

Tosser in the white ute was parked blocking the pedestrian thoroughfare through the Majura Park car park at lunchtime. Car park was less than quarter full at the time.

Saw half-dozen or so mothers with prams attempting to navigate around the car, so hope he picked up a few scratches.

Tosser

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9. Taninaus found what may be the largest piece of poor parking this week:

This ‘gentleman’ decided that the middle of the limited and very busy Gartside st parking in Erindale was perfectly suitable while he got his Kingsley’s dinner on Friday night. His abuse as he came out to move it was a sight and his sense of entitlement to block the traffic just confirmed that he was what we thought.

BIG TRUCK

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10. Ryan’s words sadly ring true:

Bicycle lanes make the best carparks … (Barry drive, civic)

RING TRUE

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11. Gerry-Built makes a good point:

Adequate parking around the skatepark on a Sunday morning; but who wants to *walk* the additional 20m.

Wouldn't they be skating the additional 20m?

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12. Gregory wishes for more parking:

Seen in an access to Westfield Belconnen (which perpetually does not have enough parking for weekends).

Belco

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13. Paul0075 isn’t a very high ranking secret agent, but he managed to spy this park:

Found this one at Kippax Fair today.

Not fair.

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14. Sheep Groper is always at the chemist:

The truck was parked in a no standing zone facing the wrong direction, forcing traffic to cross
over the centre line to get past in Tuggeranong.

LOOONG TRUCK

And of course – the cheap chemist at Woden.

DAT CHEMIST

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15. Zeital identifies the source of our troubles:

Saw this one this morning (23rd). Woden long stay car park, ‘teaching’ a learner to reverse parallel park into the no stopping while everyone is trying to get past them to park for work. No wonder people don’t know how to drive look what they are getting taught.

THE BEGINNINGS!

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16. Tim lets his work speak for him:

The Last FourPhotos

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tim_c said :

JC said :

Re 11, provided there are no ‘no parking’ signs along that stretch of road, there is nothing what so ever wrong with how that vehicle is parked.

Except that the driver has parked it in a bike lane.

Plus he is partially blocking a lane.

Where he is parked is a straight through lane, the other lane is designated as right turn only.

JC said :

Re 11, provided there are no ‘no parking’ signs along that stretch of road, there is nothing what so ever wrong with how that vehicle is parked.

Except that the driver has parked it in a bike lane.

c_c™ said :

#10, assuming the vehicle has the right permit, looks legal actually. Not smart, but does look legal. Unbroken lines, inside the lines and he’s well inside the sign posted area. Think TAMS might want to get a tin of paint, or move the sign a little way up.

I’m not so sure – is that the beginning of the loading bay line just near the left-rear tyre?

dph said :

Can someone explain what it is with tradies & their self entitlement when it comes to parking & pretty much any road rule in the book?

Tradies? Book?! What’s that?

Holden Caulfield9:49 am 24 Sep 13

Growling Ferret said :

16a – I don’t know why its illegal (if it is)

Off the road, not blocking anything. Should be fine.

I agree with you, however parking on the verge is not legal. Personally, I’d rather have the car there out of the way rather than on the road potentially impeding traffic flow and/or sight lines.

Holden Caulfield9:47 am 24 Sep 13

JC said :

Re 11, provided there are no ‘no parking’ signs along that stretch of road, there is nothing what so ever wrong with how that vehicle is parked.

Is the car parked in a cycle lane and/or does the unbroken white line indicate parking is not be kosher?

Re 11, provided there are no ‘no parking’ signs along that stretch of road, there is nothing what so ever wrong with how that vehicle is parked.

Growling Ferret8:16 pm 23 Sep 13

16a – I don’t know why its illegal (if it is)

Off the road, not blocking anything. Should be fine.

Holden Caulfield said :

Give the driver of car #5a a chance, he/she is clearly blind.

I think 5b also deserves a chance. When was the last time anyone saw a hummer actually “off road”.

#10, assuming the vehicle has the right permit, looks legal actually. Not smart, but does look legal. Unbroken lines, inside the lines and he’s well inside the sign posted area. Think TAMS might want to get a tin of paint, or move the sign a little way up.

Holden Caulfield4:04 pm 23 Sep 13

Give the driver of car #5a a chance, he/she is clearly blind.

beardedclam said :

#15, what other people?? Even if there were other people, practicing in an empty car park is a pretty good way to expose a learner driver to other drivers and vehicles, in a semi controlled environment. Good job for being so patient with other people’s needs though.

I don’t think the issue is the (emptyness or not of the) carpark – more; the reversing into a ‘No Stopping’ spot… you don’t have to be a rocket surgeon to see the issue with teaching a learner bad habits early on…

beardedclam said :

#15, what other people?? Even if there were other people, practicing in an empty car park is a pretty good way to expose a learner driver to other drivers and vehicles, in a semi controlled environment. Good job for being so patient with other people’s needs though.

Sorry but I need to correct you there. At 8.00am on any morning this car park has a stream of people coming to the entrance this learner was trying to learn in and trying to reverse parallel park into a section that wasn’t designed to as it is close to where said cars are coming into. Just because I didn’t catch another car in the pic or that the end of the line didn’t have any cars yet doesn’t mean that they weren’t blocking people trying to come into the car park. there is other places in Woden that would have been a better pick and a more legal parking spot too.

I don’t have a a lack of patients with learner, I was one myself, what I have a lack of patience for is driving instructors teaching learners incorrect driving.

Can someone explain what it is with tradies & their self entitlement when it comes to parking & pretty much any road rule in the book?

#2 is this weeks “Most deserving of a damn good keying” award winner.

#15, what other people?? Even if there were other people, practicing in an empty car park is a pretty good way to expose a learner driver to other drivers and vehicles, in a semi controlled environment. Good job for being so patient with other people’s needs though.

OK, so #14 isn’t bad parking. The trucks have to use this area of the road due to the positions of the loading docks for the Hyperdome. He is facing into the oncoming traffic because he will need to swing that wide to get into the Fresh Life loading dock just where the cab of his truck is. He will also use the entrance to Homeworld to do so – thus blocking the entire street briefly.

That road is also 4 cars wide, if you can’t manage to go around the truck (even with oncoming cars) then there is something wrong. The skills of the truckies should be commended for the effort they need to get into the 3 loading docks on this street.

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