naming names. The hotel is pretty remote from anything but runs a “complementary” shuttle bus to and from the airport, which also has a rail station (and the Intertraffic RAI exhibi- tion center is two stops up the line).Well, I say complementa- ry bus, but that’s not quite true.The bus is free to the hotel but costs 5€to get back.What a cheap trick!


From JVH: I can’t let Peter’s degradation of U.S. parking


equipment go without a small comment. He’s right, of course, in one sense; in another, he is wrong.You know the old saw about not criticizing until you walk a mile in another’s moc- casins?This is a perfect example.We in theU.S. validate park- ing. It’s a national pastime for the merchant, hospital, univer- sity, shopping center or whatever to pay for the parking (or part of it) of its customers. It’s our way of life. They don’t validate in the UK. Period. It’s just not done.


So, yes, the manner of validation is primitive, but it’s chang- ing. Dennis Cunning also pointed out that there are ways to handle this phenomenon andmitigate the problem.That being said, there are a number of very high-tech ways of handling it and solving the “bits of paper” issue. However, those also cause other “commercial issues” for the operator, tenant and parker.You can read all about that in last month’s PT.


Peter Guest is PT’s correspondent on all things European and Middle East. He can be reached at peterguestparking@hotmail.co.uk.


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