Parking - in the new day an age - Rant

[MossRoad]

Anyone been to Crystal Bridges in Bentonville, AR?

Free art museum care of Walmart family.

Very nice.

 

[Oaktree]

We don't need more stores here in God's Country.

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Could use a few more stores within comfortable driving distance myself. Retail options aren't one of the perks of living in the country.

 

[Jstpssng]

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Could use a few more stores within comfortable driving distance myself. Retail options aren't one of the perks of living in the country.

I do a lot of mail order. Yet they won’t deliver diesel and gasoline in the quantities I need…

 

[ovrszd]

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Could use a few more stores within comfortable driving distance myself. Retail options aren't one of the perks of living in the country.

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I guess your perception of living in the country and mine are different. I don't live where I do because I could use more stores within comfortable driving distance.

In today's World I don't need population growth which brings retail options. I can Google search, order online and UPS will hand it to me on my front porch within a few days. And it has no strings attached of crowded population.

 

[WinterDeere]

I do a lot of mail order. Yet they won’t deliver diesel and gasoline in the quantities I need…

Someday, the only brick and mortar stores surviving will be the ones that sell... brick and mortar. They're too heavy to ship!

 

[JethroB]

Don't have compassion for people who take advantage of the system just so they can save a few steps walking. Don't know your health situation but if you get of your lifted truck and walk briskly into the store from your handicapped parking spot I have no problem making a judgment call that you are gaming the system.

That’s what I witnessed that prompted my initial post on the subject. And I know the guy.

 

[BravoXray]

While on the subject of parking, I think one of the problems in parking lots is that the people that paint the lines for the spaces seem to think that even though no more than 30% of the spaces will ever be used at one time, they make the spaces only large enough for compact cars. Adding a foot to the width of a space would help a lot. On a row of spaces 300 feet long, going from an eight foot wide space to a nine foot space would only lose four spaces, hardly noticeable.
With the large numbers of pickups in use today, 9.5 foot or even 10 foot wide spaces would be really nice.
However no matter how wide the spaces are, some a-hole is going to park on or over the line.

 

[MossRoad]

While on the subject of parking, I think one of the problems in parking lots is that the people that paint the lines for the spaces seem to think that even though no more than 30% of the spaces will ever be used at one time, they make the spaces only large enough for compact cars. Adding a foot to the width of a space would help a lot. On a row of spaces 300 feet long, going from an eight foot wide space to a nine foot space would only lose four spaces, hardly noticeable.
With the large numbers of pickups in use today, 9.5 foot or even 10 foot wide spaces would be really nice.
However no matter how wide the spaces are, some a-hole is going to park on or over the line.

I have the opportunity to watch a lot of parking lot painting each spring. (like watching paint dry ). The painters don't determine the spacing, they just follow the work orders. Some engineer and/or bean counter determines the spacing. And I have noticed in just the 5 years I've been at my employer, the parking spots have gotten narrower. And they added another row/isle, so the spots got shorter as well. I purposely park my Suburban in side rows that face the grass/dirt so that I can pull forward into the weeds so my rear end doesn't stick out.

Nothing irks me more in a parking lot than to look down a row of cars and seeing a vehicle sticking 2-3 feet out into the isle further than everyone else.

 

[BravoXray]

I have the opportunity to watch a lot of parking lot painting each spring. (like watching paint dry ). The painters don't determine the spacing, they just follow the work orders. Some engineer and/or bean counter determines the spacing. And I have noticed in just the 5 years I've been at my employer, the parking spots have gotten narrower. And they added another row/isle, so the spots got shorter as well. I purposely park my Suburban in side rows that face the grass/dirt so that I can pull forward into the weeds so my rear end doesn't stick out.

Nothing irks me more in a parking lot than to look down a row of cars and seeing a vehicle sticking 2-3 feet out into the isle further than everyone else.

Obviously, no bean counter in the corporate offices of these big box stores has realized that larger spaces would use less paint and thus cost less.

 

[MossRoad]

The only time they need all those spaces is Black Friday.