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From: Bod on 5 Dec 2009 15:35 Harry Bloomfield wrote: > Ray Keattch expressed precisely : >> What do you think the ratio is off drivers who understand what you are >> doing and park likewise? > > I would suggest about 10% just park and walk off not caring if there > cars obstruct others from getting out. About 20% park (or seem to) using > the same method I describe or do so accidently. > I've never noticed this or very rarely. Bod
From: Bod on 5 Dec 2009 15:44 Bod wrote: > Harry Bloomfield wrote: >> Ray Keattch expressed precisely : >>> What do you think the ratio is off drivers who understand what you >>> are doing and park likewise? >> >> I would suggest about 10% just park and walk off not caring if there >> cars obstruct others from getting out. About 20% park (or seem to) >> using the same method I describe or do so accidently. >> > I've never noticed this or very rarely. > > Bod Just to clarify: I've only noticed this happening on very few occasions. Bod
From: Steve Firth on 5 Dec 2009 20:04 Mike P <stripeytabby(a)live.co.uk> wrote: > > How many cars are driven and parked which contain passengers? My own > > guess would be 1 in 30. > > You're having a laugh surely? You want to try going in somewhere like the > Oracle in Reading on a Saturday. Average car occupancy is 1.6, this would mean that up to 60% of all cars have a passenger. Mr Bloomfield's powers of observation are up to their usual standards.
From: Martin on 7 Dec 2009 03:50 "Harry Bloomfield" <harry.m1byt(a)NOSPAM.tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message news:mn.2c1d7d9c29b27458.106911(a)NOSPAM.tiscali.co.uk... > on 05/12/2009, Ray Keattch supposed : >> Why not just park centrally in your bay? If you need to pull out to let >> someone into a fully open door you can, leaving others to get in >> partially open doors if that is all they need. > > The bays are narrow, I drive a large car and do need to be able to get in > and out of my car when parked. A lot of the problem is that bays are very narrow and there is insufficient room in the access road between one bay and the next to be able to manoeuvre adequately to be able to position your car where you want it. I was parking in the car park of York hospital the other day. It was musical chairs: every time the barrier opened because someone had left, you had to search for the space and then hope that someone else had got there first - there seemed always to be more cars in the car park than there were spaces available. When I found a space, another car arrived at about the same time from the opposite direction, but she waved me into the space. But she then drove forwards so I couldn't drive past the space to reverse into it, and didn't even leave me enough room to drive far enough forward to be able to drive straight (as opposed to crooked) into the space. And once I'd gone in, she drove forward so I couldn't reverse back out to fine-tune my position. Shame I couldn't lift the back end of the car and shift it a few inches sideways :-) I had to get out of the passenger door where it so happened there was more space. It didn't help that there was a very long 4x4 in the bay on the opposite side of the access road so I wouldn't have had as much room as normal to manoeuvre before driving/reversing into the space. And that's with a normal sized car (a Peugeot 308), not a very long or wide vehicle.
From: ChelseaTractorMan on 7 Dec 2009 06:36
On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:03:18 +0000, Silk <me(a)privacy.net> wrote: >It's no good just guessing. People are notoriously unreliable at >guessing these kinds of things. You'll probably find your one foot is >more like 3 feet. don't they say women cannot park because so many men told them 6" was actually a foot? -- Mike. .. . Gone beyond the ultimate driving machine. |