The BAD PARKING thread [vol4]
Discussion
Bonefish Blues said:
My daughters school does have regular visits from fluorescent-jacketed people from the County Council, which are helpful for a while but whose effect wears off quite quickly.
I really wish they would do this near me. The Council are busy extending the double yellow lines round the estate to prevent people parking for free rather than pay to park in the station car park, however, they also keep repainting the double yellow lines outside the school and shop because they keep wearing off due to the volume of 'tards that park on them with impunity.
Nah, I’ve no problem with that one. They’re not blocking the pavement, plenty of room to get around. And they’ve done it to avoid stringing a cable across a wide expanse of pavement.
And for the future, that road appears like there is enough pavement space to extend every house to have a drive, and still have a standard width pavement for when everyone needs to charge their car.
And for the future, that road appears like there is enough pavement space to extend every house to have a drive, and still have a standard width pavement for when everyone needs to charge their car.
CheesecakeRunner said:
Nah, I’ve no problem with that one. They’re not blocking the pavement, plenty of room to get around. And they’ve done it to avoid stringing a cable across a wide expanse of pavement.
And for the future, that road appears like there is enough pavement space to extend every house to have a drive, and still have a standard width pavement for when everyone needs to charge their car.
Its a pavement not a carpark, so there is a problem with it. Putting cables across the pavement also isn't acceptable, but I guess we will have more of these idiots in future. And for the future, that road appears like there is enough pavement space to extend every house to have a drive, and still have a standard width pavement for when everyone needs to charge their car.
CheesecakeRunner said:
Nah, I’ve no problem with that one. They’re not blocking the pavement, plenty of room to get around. And they’ve done it to avoid stringing a cable across a wide expanse of pavement.
And for the future, that road appears like there is enough pavement space to extend every house to have a drive, and still have a standard width pavement for when everyone needs to charge their car.
own an electric bmw do you? Live in Cardiff do you? And for the future, that road appears like there is enough pavement space to extend every house to have a drive, and still have a standard width pavement for when everyone needs to charge their car.
Mr Spoon said:
Driver101 said:
It would be funny if cars parked properly and boxed him in.
as a bmw driver, he would just punt them out the wayThey've bought the wrong car for their living arrangements.
PH User said:
CheesecakeRunner said:
Nah, I’ve no problem with that one. They’re not blocking the pavement, plenty of room to get around. And they’ve done it to avoid stringing a cable across a wide expanse of pavement.
And for the future, that road appears like there is enough pavement space to extend every house to have a drive, and still have a standard width pavement for when everyone needs to charge their car.
Its a pavement not a carpark, so there is a problem with it. Putting cables across the pavement also isn't acceptable, but I guess we will have more of these idiots in future. And for the future, that road appears like there is enough pavement space to extend every house to have a drive, and still have a standard width pavement for when everyone needs to charge their car.
Cold said:
They've bought the wrong car for their living arrangements.
Psycho Warren said:
Exactly, its going to be a big issue in the future. basically if you are too poor to afford offroad parking then an evis not likely to work well for you. Public charging will likely be quite expensive so you would have to rely on free charging in limited locations that will be in very high demand.
I think a large portion of those people could still charge at their work.As for public charging quite expensive... I don't think it will be. In the end it's supply/demand. If you can install street chargers at 1k /piece and sell your electricity at 30c, the ROI on that is pretty great.
ZesPak said:
I think a large portion of those people could still charge at their work.
As for public charging quite expensive... I don't think it will be. In the end it's supply/demand. If you can install street chargers at 1k /piece and sell your electricity at 30c, the ROI on that is pretty great.
I think you might have over estimated the number of people with a work car parking space. Those that do, might find that the available spaces are nowhere near any charging points.As for public charging quite expensive... I don't think it will be. In the end it's supply/demand. If you can install street chargers at 1k /piece and sell your electricity at 30c, the ROI on that is pretty great.
Potentially, their employers might allow cables to be run to their cars, but the liability of another employee suing them over a trip hazard may crush that option.
Those that park in a train station or other public car park (or residential street) as part of the commute, will find it a lottery to locate an all day charging solution.
Edited by Tommo87 on Wednesday 1st December 14:53
Tommo87 said:
ZesPak said:
I think a large portion of those people could still charge at their work.
As for public charging quite expensive... I don't think it will be. In the end it's supply/demand. If you can install street chargers at 1k /piece and sell your electricity at 30c, the ROI on that is pretty great.
I think you might have over estimated the number of people with a work car parking space. Those that do, might find that the available spaces are nowhere near any charging points.As for public charging quite expensive... I don't think it will be. In the end it's supply/demand. If you can install street chargers at 1k /piece and sell your electricity at 30c, the ROI on that is pretty great.
Potentially, their employers might allow cables to be run to their cars, but the liability of another employee suing them over a trip hazard may crush that option.
Those that park in a train station or other public car park (or residential street) as part of the commute, will find it a lottery to locate an all day charging solution.
As for train stations or other public car parks, again a lot of work to be done but I've seen these things go really fast in no time. Adding 1000 chargers takes less investment and a lot less planning and time than adding 1 petrol station. Again, if the demand is high enough...
In general, a large part of new cars are company cars. These are of a higher average purchase price and usually bought more with a TCO perspective compared to private cars. In short, when companies start buying EV's for themselves. they'll add chargers to their car parks.
I know some people that don't drive the car to work and they need a couple of hours charging once every two weeks. Plenty of stores/restaurants/fitness centres/... they can do that at without breaking any routine. The average car in the uk drives 20 miles/day (pre-corona!), that's less than one night of charging every week. Don't want to derail this any further, plenty of threads about this already. The main problem is infrastructure but it's not hard nor expensive and I've seen it happen at an astonishing rate in the Netherlands.
That said, being able to charge at home will definitely bring a premium. Also there we've seen multiple solutions. Some more elegant than the other.
Edited by ZesPak on Wednesday 1st December 15:24
Psycho Warren said:
Exactly, its going to be a big issue in the future. basically if you are too poor to afford offroad parking then an evis not likely to work well for you. Public charging will likely be quite expensive so you would have to rely on free charging in limited locations that will be in very high demand.
Its not always a case of being too poor to afford off road parking, some houses/flats without off-road parking can be very expensive indeed. Teebs said:
I asked our local traffic warden to take action at our local school, too busy, short staffed was the answer.
Turned up 2 weeks later on my street and ticketed all the builders' vans that were working at my house. f
kers.
This is just great!!Turned up 2 weeks later on my street and ticketed all the builders' vans that were working at my house. f
kers.Ps I am a regularly ticketed builder.
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