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London is trying to improve parking... with sensors that input to a system drivers can access to locate empty parking spots, thereby spending less time looking for one
This week, the City of Westminster, Boroughs in Manchester and Birmingham also, London’s local councils, will start embedding the first 0f 3,000 sensors into the streets. They will be in the ground by the end of March, making London the world’s first major city to adopt the long-heralded “smart parking” revolution.
motorists spend an average of 15 minutes searching for a space in Westminster—which with Parliament, the main shopping district, and dozens of tourist sites, has a legitimate claim to be the heart of London.
If drivers know where the empty spaces are via a smartphone app, they won’t have to cruise the streets looking for one. Each sensor in the ground detects when a car is parked on the street above it.
The list of benefits is long: Apart from reducing traffic, fuel consumption, and emissions from cars, it boosts the local economy as people spend more time in shops, restaurants and offices rather than on the street.
info from http://qz.com/166182/how-london-plans-to-eliminate-the-search-for-a-parking-spot/#/h/40232,3/
motorists spend an average of 15 minutes searching for a space in Westminster—which with Parliament, the main shopping district, and dozens of tourist sites, has a legitimate claim to be the heart of London.
If drivers know where the empty spaces are via a smartphone app, they won’t have to cruise the streets looking for one. Each sensor in the ground detects when a car is parked on the street above it.
The list of benefits is long: Apart from reducing traffic, fuel consumption, and emissions from cars, it boosts the local economy as people spend more time in shops, restaurants and offices rather than on the street.
info from http://qz.com/166182/how-london-plans-to-eliminate-the-search-for-a-parking-spot/#/h/40232,3/
the indication that they have started the clock on your car and that they are coming back to give out tickets
so if you back up for a foot, and bury this chalk mark... you win Two months ago I posted this when they used a chalk to mark a tire, this time they bag bombed the tires http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/10/if-you-ever-park-in-one-of-timed-zones.html
if you ever park in one of the timed zones, where you get an hour or two at most, now and then to avoid a ticket, roll your car back about a foot or two, and hide the chalk mark
the chalk marks are hard to see in the bottom photo, but they can be made out
it's easy to spot the asshole in the parking garage, they picked the largest vehicle, the smallest parking spot, and in the worst location. They deserve a "Biggest Douchebag" award
the front bumper is over the arrow in the lane... at the corner... half a door and all the fenders and bumper more into the lane than the Civic next to it. Is it a Long Beach parking garage thing?
Another rich asshole who will park anywhere
and I forgot to get chalk and business cards like this epic photo http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/05/i-am-going-to-get-chalk-and-some.html
for more photos of complete assholes parking like assholes http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/parking
but the best notes I've ever seen are http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/06/funniest-apology-note-ever.html
and http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/10/best-learn-to-park-note-ive-seen-in.html
nice parking guys, good thing this strip mall has 2 other ways in and out
Good thing they know how many ways this type of blocking a fire exit access isn't allowed.
when you park next to a fire hydrant, your passenger WILL door ding your car. Happened both arriving and leaving
more than one person doesn't understand that you are more likely to be towed at the AAA dragstrip than probably anywhere outside Philadelphia
Why Philly? I've enjoyed watching the tv show "Parking Wars"
driving up the one way street against traffic, and then parking backwards, isn't just stupid and illegal... it's contagious. Be careful, this might prove it's contagious
the moment that the stang was getting parked, this gray Honda pulled in and didn't try to park. He just made a Nike brand shape (swoosh?, checkmark? off set boomerang?) and didn't use reverse. Just put it in park, and walked into the mall.
coolest parking garage ever
Detroit, once the center of automotive manufacturing. Now, a reminder of the results of failure. The movie Alex Cross (good action thriller) used the abandoned and deteriorated Packard plant, and this parking garage (formerly the Michigan Theater) as prime filming locations for chasing and confronting the antagonist character, perhaps symbolically of the mighty university degreed Sherlockian detective vs the morally decayed assassin tortured psycho. Or just incredibly cheap movie sets in poor desperate Michigan for Hollywood movie production budgets to stretch multiple times farther than in Los Angeles
Built in the roaring 1920's excess as the best theater in the midwest, Italian Renaissance styled, but bankrupt by the 50's, and then used to screen hockey games and stage rock and roll concerts... it was then abandonded. Just like so much of Detroit and Michigan when the car makers began to have competition from Europe and lost the focused attention of the worlds car buyers.
The lobby was 4 stories of vast area under a ceiling with 10 foot crystal chandeliers
When they began to demolish the theater, it apparently began to destabilize the adjoining 13 story office building, and destruction was stopped. But with nothing under the ornate decayed ceiling 8 stories above the seats, and parking becoming a problem for the 1970's land yachts, the idea for a parking garage was brought about. Ironic, the theater was hurt most because it had no parking for it's customers, and the competition did.
Many websites are so-so with images of this wonder of parking garages, but see the movie Alex Cross and you'll get a series of movie scenes in the garage, in the projectionists booth, above the false ceiling, etc etc. Best look at it short of a trip to Detroit.
Images and info from http://www.urbanghostsmedia.com/2011/04/michigan-theater-detroits-famous-renaissance-style-parking-garage/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Building
http://weburbanist.com/2011/01/01/detroits-michigan-theater-the-worlds-most-beautiful-parking-lot/
Unlike the above sites in 2011, the forum http://www.detroityes.com/mb/archive/index.php/t-6538.html?s=a308c97274561d367369c36cd763a0c9 did some research on the parking in 2010 and says that it's off limits to the general public during normal business hours, due to the limited spaces (130) and that the office building tenants have scooped the spaces early every business day
During non-business hours the parking is used for sporting events, mainly football and baseball, a loyal clientele who often park there during game days, especially during football games when tailgating is done without the worry of inclement weather.
for many articles about Detroit preservation and tours of this and other abandoned, neglected, etc etc points of historic interest: http://preservationdetroit.org/about/press/ which can be summed up as a lot of buildings are planned to be destroyed for parking.
What will a corrupt city government do to get your money in fines? Paint a handicap parking around your car, then tow your car, fine you, and get a cut of the towing and impound fines. Nice huh?
thanks Steve for the story! (he wanted me to see the cool tow truck (side forks that allow a narrow street parallel parked car to get hoisted onto the flatbed while parked beside it in traffic))
Here is the great part, it was all captured on a security camera across the street, and the car owner was smart enough to check for that. She's avoided the fines (total $365 USD) got her car back, an apology from the mayor, and publicly (using facebook) exposed this scam.
Full story here: http://www.timesofisrael.com/parking-debacle-turns-facebook-sensation/
Some wheel boots aren't very effective on VWs
These S Holes can't be bothered to park their cars anywhere but as close as possible to the store, even at the extent of parking across 2 spots
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