It feels like it has been forever since I did a Monday Parking post on an actual Monday.
Is it odd that I feel vaguely nostalgic about it?
It is, right?
Damn.
At any rate we have a bunch of terrible parks for your to frown at this week, and also a surprising amount of free publicity for the circus.
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1. BlueTongie starts us off right with a classic find:
These photos were taken in Moore St, Civic on Thursday morning. Several riders turned up in the short time I was there to glare at the car, before roaring off to find another park.
Perhaps the sign isn’t clear enough.
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What’s Your opinion?
Parking returns to Monday
I’m thoroughly baffled at how #14 came to be. I can’t see any damage to the rear of the vehicle, is it possible that they just drove straightover the island and into the traffic light?
Solidarity said :
Ok, now I see the barely existent line markings it makes sense.
Also the blue Volvo is in two spaces (It’s faint, but look just in front of the rear wheel)
#10 both cars are obstructing the path access
What’s the deal with #10? Is it no parking (no signs shown in pic)?
#12 – where you see preventing access, I see a minor obstacle. Most of that front body work unclips easy enough.
#4 – On Saturday afternoon I parked in the car park next to the Canberra Theatre and went off to have lunch and do some shopping (Including perishables). To my disgust I returned to find this parked behind me making it extremely difficult to get out (Reversing straight out I would have hit their rear passenger door)
“Including perishables”. This made me LOL.
Oh, and LRN2DRV.
#2 is just so bad they deserve to get a scratch to their car down the side.
Selfish, lazy, bad parking.
#13 – those clowns look so evil particularly poised over the cars like that. and they have been very aggressive with their advertising. there must be many free tickets being given out as incentive to host the signage on private property (despite this probably breaching your crown lease with the Gov)
Thanks for the latest edition of Canberra’s parking woes.
#7 – you should have jumped in his passenger-side door and demand to be taken to the airport?
“Well, this is</I< a taxi isn't it?!"
I’m confused by #4. I can’t work out how that illegal park made it impossible for any of the other cars in shot to move off. (And no, I do not drive a blue car.)
My flatmate went to the Press Club the other night to discover that the last two parks in the members’ carpark had been taken up by a single convertible Mercedes. Oh how I wish he had taken photos. Anyway, the said driver got into heated conversations within the club while he defended his right not to get dings in his door because they cost so much more in a “quality car”. Apparently they all started chanting “Mr Two-Space” to him.
Re: #8
The HaHa / Zambrero’s carpark is so frustrating.
I was there on Friday night and was shocked to see 2 carparks next to each other, I was coming from one direction with another car coming from the other direction and slightly closer to the vacant spots so they beat me to parking in there first… They pulled in, to the middle of both spots and spent the next 5 mins reversing and trying to straighten up. In the end when I walked passed, they still hadn’t quite straighten up enough and no one would have been able to park next to them. I will have to also note that to drive into said carparks, they were almost driving straight in.
The 2 extra long carparks pictured had one car over the white line. Maybe they didn’t realise it was no longer 3 spots and had been turned into 2.
I was too hungry to stop and take a picture.