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don’t have much to gain by spending thou- sands of dollars on a stand – apart from avoiding the inevitable scuttlebutt that they are in difficulty if they don’t show. Themost fun inMarch was the British


parking awards, which are getting increas- ingly like the Oscars but without the speeches. Everyone has a good time (drink is taken), and this year the eventmoved to a bigger venue to get everybody in. There were about 16 awards; the judges tend to bend the rules a bit andmove things around. The good news at the BPA awards was


that a parking assistant working at a cancer hospital got to be the “parking personality of the year” because he went the extra mile for every customer and the hospital was deluged with letters of praise. The bad news, to me, was that none of


the new parking structures really came up to scratch and didn’t get an award.As judge for this category, this led to some rather petulant correspondence from one designer, but, hey guys, don’t blameme if you can’t get it right. It’s not all high-tech super-stuff.One entrywas a “car pool”


car park, where the operator came up with a simple solution to keep single drivers out. No cards, no cameras, no bureaucracy –


the car park barrier is opened by two buttons that have to be pressed simultaneously from opposite sides of the car. One per- son can’t reach, not even with a stick. Appropriate technology in one. And, finally, how to screw your customers in one easy les-


son: InAmsterdam for Intertraffic, I was staying at an edge-of- airport car park hotel – let’s call it “Vacation Tavern” to avoid


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