Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Parking our lives away
Finding a parking space has long seemed like a kind of purgatory: waiting in multi-storeys, endlessly circling and re-circling towns and cities in the hope of finding somewhere to wedge my car in, only to find that some chancer has snatched the space at just the moment I’ve decided to change radio stations. However, it is only recently that the true cost of searching for a parking space has been revealed.
Parking company NCP has revealed that drivers spend as much as a year of their lives searching for that elusive parking space. This is certainly not the civic dream that was sold to our parents in the 1950s and 1960s.
NCP’s chief operating officer commented, "Parking should be simple, but in reality it is a stressful experience for most of us.
"There's often a lot of pressure on us from other passengers, people waiting behind you, and then there's the added time pressure too.
"It's bad enough we're spending so much time sitting in traffic jams, commuting on busy motorways or taking the children to school. Parking should be the easiest part."
According to the survey, the average motorist spends around 35 minutes looking for a parking space each day; more time than many of us get to spend with our friends.
I guess the inescapable reality of overcrowded cities bereft of free parking spaces just makes it all the more important that we save time in other ways, such as going straight to Hoot to find the cheapest car insurance on the market.
Parking company NCP has revealed that drivers spend as much as a year of their lives searching for that elusive parking space. This is certainly not the civic dream that was sold to our parents in the 1950s and 1960s.
NCP’s chief operating officer commented, "Parking should be simple, but in reality it is a stressful experience for most of us."There's often a lot of pressure on us from other passengers, people waiting behind you, and then there's the added time pressure too.
"It's bad enough we're spending so much time sitting in traffic jams, commuting on busy motorways or taking the children to school. Parking should be the easiest part."
According to the survey, the average motorist spends around 35 minutes looking for a parking space each day; more time than many of us get to spend with our friends.
I guess the inescapable reality of overcrowded cities bereft of free parking spaces just makes it all the more important that we save time in other ways, such as going straight to Hoot to find the cheapest car insurance on the market.
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