Can Technology Be ‘Pushed’ tooQuickly? I cannot see any way that, if the project goes ahead on the


basis of the current traffic studies, it won’t open tomajor traffic problems and run out of parking within a few years. Inevitably,


and thought he had something to do with running the car park. He duly completed hiswork and tried to drive out.When he final- lymade it, he crossed the site off the short list; it was that bad. The strange thing is


Trouble is, they have no build-up of knowledge, so it rather seems that they are being installed on a “suck it and see” basis.


if I am right, the traders will quickly move out to a site that can be accessed and the project will become a ghost town.


Same car park, different day I think I mentioned that, at the start of the year, I was a


judge in the British ParkingAssociation awards and did the new car parks bit. One entry was for a car park in Liverpool.A lot of effort was put in to making it look good with some fantastic architecture; the trouble is that it just doesn’t work. My fellow judge visited, and whilst he was looking round


and taking a few measurements, he was besieged (the man with the clipboard) by angry drivers who couldn’t find the way out


that the same car park has just won the European Parking Association award for the best new car park in Europe. I spoke to one of the judges, and he mur- mured that perhaps it would be a good idea, in the


future, if the judges drove the car parks, rather than just look at them. I also spoke to one of the design team, and when I told him


what had happened for “the Brits,” he started to explain to me why it was indeed difficult to find your way around in parts of the car park. No, wrong! Don’t tellme why it’s bad; design it so that it’s good ... but then I would have nothing to moan about.


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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