Roads in the area

[Ian]

Bit of both, I'd imagine.

[Hugo]

They were my thoughts too Ian.     I wonder if it'll make the Daily Post list of bad parkers for October?

[spotty dog]

We are assuming there wasn't a motorbike parked before you arrived

[Hugo]

Do you mean on both  sides of this bad parker?       

[cygnusx-1]

All those leaves over the lines in the dark is my take on it and then we have had a bit of wind since........ that blew them away against the fence .......unless my learned friend can prove otherwise?

[snowcap]

a friend of my wife parks like that regular to stop her car getting scratched by folk opening their doors and marking her car again. She has paid out over £300 in the last two years to repair the same. I don't agree with it but she will still keep on doing it

[Hugo]

That would be no excuse in the eyes of the law, but unenforceable in the Afon Conwy.     Any responsible motorist would have checked that they had parked correctly before going into the building anyway.
One thing that I'll give them credit for though is that their road tax and MOT are up to date

[Hugo]

Multi vehicle pile up on the A55 in Mochdre causes delays


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-41665146

[Hugo]

a friend of my wife parks like that regular to stop her car getting scratched by folk opening their doors and marking her car again. She has paid out over £300 in the last two years to repair the same. I don't agree with it but she will still keep on doing it

I can understand why your wife's friend is doing that, after experiencing one incident myself in Morrison's car park.  The damage caused by the woman driver to my car was estimated at between £300.00 and £500.00.   The woman then drove off without leaving her details.
That's not an excuse for selfish parking though, just imagine if everyone took two parking spaces.   The car parks would soon be full up.

[Ian]

It's interesting, not least because UK parking spaces are far too narrow.  I suppose if we follow your logic, Hugo, then in a capitalist society it would be up to the businesses concerned to make provision for extra car parking.  Perhaps if everyone took one and a half spaces and trade correspondingly declined then the businesses might react and start making larger spaces. And damage in car parks happens a great deal.

[Hugo]

I'm not suggesting that we do take up two car spaces when we park Ian.  Car parks have allocated spaces for parking and that is why they have lines so that you can park between them.

The answer is simple, if you can't park properly or you are afraid of getting your car damaged then park elsewhere.     

I do agree with you though, that the allocated parking spaces are far too narrow and I've quoted Morrison's as a fine example of that.   In addition to the narrow spaces between the lines you are also faced with all those concrete supporting columns that they have on the bottom level.

Shops would be reluctant to make the spaces wider as they only have a limited allocation of space for parking and therefore they would have less customers.   Less customers means less profits for them so we should just be more careful when parking and getting in and out of the cars too

[Ian]

Yes, I know, but my argument is on the lines that if their custom starts to drop off, perhaps it might prove an incentive to change the parking situation for the better.  It's not that hard to do, curiously;  I would reckon they could all afford to lose one space at the end of each line and widen the remaining spaces commensurately. After all, they did it for the mother and child spaces.

[llewelyn]

If the doors on your car are quite wide,  and you are a little rotund, you get back to your car and find you cannot open the door wide enough to get in, and my days of climbing in from the passenger side  are over. 

[Hugo]

If the doors on your car are quite wide,  and you are a little rotund, you get back to your car and find you cannot open the door wide enough to get in, and my days of climbing in from the passenger side  are over. 

No problem of getting back into the car here and fair play she has parked between the lines, but does she have to buy one ticket or two?   

[spotty dog]

Fair play Hugo I'll give you that one, did you explain to her the error off her way  .