Monday, April 24, 2006
Aisle car parks
Good morning,
The aisle seats and reserved car park lots.
In a church there are usually three long passages from the entrance to the altar. There is the nave which is in the center between the two rows of seats and the two aisles, each between the row of seats and the walls. But people will say the bride walks down the aisle to her wedding. So, how and who is going to correct that ? Nevermind, we will stick to this aisle usage, the wedding aisle.
During a wedding people will want to sit near the aisle, to be close to the participants as they walk past, for their own reasons, and there are good reasons here. But in a bus, in a theatre, in a cinema, in an auditorium, etc. are there similar good reasons ? It is difficult to think of good reasons there except under special circumstances. And sitting near the aisles give one more problem than comfort, having to make way for people getting in and out, to and off, the inner seats. Yet people will, in a pegged elephant way, occupy the aisles seats first. One wonders whether the MRT coach designers took this habit into considerstion, all aisles seats, ha ha.
In car parks, especially multi-storey ones, a similar type of reasoning seems to be applied in alloting spaces for seasonal passes against short term parking. One will invariably find spaces reserved for seasonal pass holders marked near the entrances/exits or from the ground level upwards. Can there be other good reasons than to merely favour the season pass holders. If there are none, then the management of all these car parks have failed to serve the car park users in an efficient way their business offers.
Parking lots nearer to the exits/entrances are more convenient, no one can argue. Therefore they should be available to more users. Why tie down these lots, which are often unoccupied, to some season pass holders, and make the majority of other users drive up and down far from the exits/entrances. It does not show consideration for all users nor reflect good and efficient management of the car parks. The reverse order ought to be applied; allocate lots in frequent use nearer the exits/entrances, and lots in reserve away where only those fewer drivers need to go to.
In most multi-storey car parks, it takes one to drive nearly a kilometre to reach the fifth storey or so, for usually the lower storeys are often reserved and vacant. Does it make sense to make every non season pass holder to drive past these reserved storeys just to find a lot ? In a day, a reserved lot is used by only one car while an open lot is used by many cars, on average more than ten . By common sense, lots to be used by many ought to be easier to access. There is a lot of lost time, petrol saving and doing away with unnecessary driving around to be considered. An open lot also earns more revenue than a reserved lot, otherwise who would want to pay for a reserved lot.
So, wake up, car park management people, before you are woken up by your superiors !
Have a nice day.
Ronald
The aisle seats and reserved car park lots.
In a church there are usually three long passages from the entrance to the altar. There is the nave which is in the center between the two rows of seats and the two aisles, each between the row of seats and the walls. But people will say the bride walks down the aisle to her wedding. So, how and who is going to correct that ? Nevermind, we will stick to this aisle usage, the wedding aisle.
During a wedding people will want to sit near the aisle, to be close to the participants as they walk past, for their own reasons, and there are good reasons here. But in a bus, in a theatre, in a cinema, in an auditorium, etc. are there similar good reasons ? It is difficult to think of good reasons there except under special circumstances. And sitting near the aisles give one more problem than comfort, having to make way for people getting in and out, to and off, the inner seats. Yet people will, in a pegged elephant way, occupy the aisles seats first. One wonders whether the MRT coach designers took this habit into considerstion, all aisles seats, ha ha.
In car parks, especially multi-storey ones, a similar type of reasoning seems to be applied in alloting spaces for seasonal passes against short term parking. One will invariably find spaces reserved for seasonal pass holders marked near the entrances/exits or from the ground level upwards. Can there be other good reasons than to merely favour the season pass holders. If there are none, then the management of all these car parks have failed to serve the car park users in an efficient way their business offers.
Parking lots nearer to the exits/entrances are more convenient, no one can argue. Therefore they should be available to more users. Why tie down these lots, which are often unoccupied, to some season pass holders, and make the majority of other users drive up and down far from the exits/entrances. It does not show consideration for all users nor reflect good and efficient management of the car parks. The reverse order ought to be applied; allocate lots in frequent use nearer the exits/entrances, and lots in reserve away where only those fewer drivers need to go to.
In most multi-storey car parks, it takes one to drive nearly a kilometre to reach the fifth storey or so, for usually the lower storeys are often reserved and vacant. Does it make sense to make every non season pass holder to drive past these reserved storeys just to find a lot ? In a day, a reserved lot is used by only one car while an open lot is used by many cars, on average more than ten . By common sense, lots to be used by many ought to be easier to access. There is a lot of lost time, petrol saving and doing away with unnecessary driving around to be considered. An open lot also earns more revenue than a reserved lot, otherwise who would want to pay for a reserved lot.
So, wake up, car park management people, before you are woken up by your superiors !
Have a nice day.
Ronald
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