Which way do you drive around this car park?

[Mr Penguin]

This car park in Lincoln is a ring around five central spaces with a few more spaces on the outside. Nearly all cars will approach on the road and direction marked in red (and also leave via this route), so assume you are turning left into the car park. There are no signs or markings stating a direction. Because it is quite narrow and a fairly tight loop, there isn't always space for two cars to pass. Once you are in should you drive around clockwise or anti-clockwise or is either correct?

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Grantham+St,+Lin...

[MitchT]

I'd always assume a clockwise direction around a car park, as most folk appear to based on my observations. That said, at my local railway station there's a similarly tight car park where, ocassionally, someone goes anti-clockwise and causes mayhem!

[Mr Penguin]

MitchT said:

I'd always assume a clockwise direction around a car park, as most folk appear to based on my observations. That said, at my local railway station there's a similarly tight car park where, ocassionally, someone goes anti-clockwise and causes mayhem!

Good to see I'm not going mad. Almost everyone goes around this one anti-clockwise for some reason and this morning I saw some get rather irate with someone for going around clockwise.

[Pica-Pica]

After entering, I would turn left, as I believe most people would. That is the normal way I see in car parks that are marked. So that would be clockwise when viewed from above.

[pocketspring]

I'd go clockwise as well like a roundabout.

[stuthemong]

Id go left as well as I’d already have some lock on and there is no marked way!

[kevsmev]

If I could see an empty space to the right, Swan St, then go straight for it. But otherwise I would go clockwise.

[Zeeky]

kevsmev said:

If I could see an empty space to the right, Swan St, then go straight for it. But otherwise I would go clockwise.

At the risk of experiencing the disapproval of a clockwise driver who has been denied the next availabale space.

I've been told off before for going anti-clockwise around a car park with no markings indicating a correct direction.

[deborah621]

If you’re turning left into the car park, it might be more intuitive to continue moving in a clockwise direction, especially if that’s the flow of traffic already established by other drivers. However, if you notice that most drivers are moving anti-clockwise, it would be best to follow suit to avoid confusion and potential accidents.

Edited by deborah621 on Thursday 28th March 06:04

[Mozart21]

My bl@#£&y minded spirit comes out and if I could see a space, I would go straight for it. This might upset someone inching their way round but parking in Lincoln never easy.

[Mr Penguin]

Mozart21 said:

My bl@#£&y minded spirit comes out and if I could see a space, I would go straight for it. This might upset someone inching their way round but parking in Lincoln never easy.

That's why I usually try to get there before 9am.