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loading bay is full of cars. The local wardens do very little to stop this,


sowhere does the truck stopwhile he is off-load- ing?WardenA tells himto block in the cars, and if their drivers want to leave during the delivery, that’s their hard luck for parking in the loading bay.Warden B says don’t do that or I will ticket you for obstruction. Warden C says park on- street just up the road.Warden D says you can’t park there, because there is a loading ban (there may be in theory, but the signs and markings do not conform to the rules, so “No Sign, No Line, No Crime”). Half the parking wardens are trying to be


helpful; the other half are just a pain in the arse. The golden child is now looking for advice on how best to sue the council.


Albania I seem to be doing one country a month so


far this year, and inMarch it wasAlbania, where my client is bidding to build a 1,600-space under- ground car park. This is quite interesting because no one in Albania has ever made a hole in the ground that big before, and I don’t think they have any rules for how to do it.


At the end of last year, I ran a very quick ten-


der to get my client a car park designer for the structure, and the winner was an Italian design bureau. Italians have rules for car parks that are somewhat different fromthe rest of Europe, espe- cially in how they deal with ventilation and fire safety, so at present we are finalizing a bid that is partAlbanian, part Italian and partBritish. Should be interesting; Iwill let you knowifwewin.


Mary Smith I have worked with people from all over the


world. Some you respect and some, well, you workwith because that’s the job. I have enormous respect forMary Smith ofWalker Parking Con- sultants (she even laughs at some of my jokes). Therefore, I was delighted to see that the faculty of Purdue University’s School of Engineering Education has awardedMary its 2009 Outstand- ingAlumniAward.Well done!


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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