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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 219124" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I get narky that hospitals and medical centres seem to have the same proportion of disabled spots as shopping malls. Administrators forget that you get more disabled people visiting hospitals and medical centres, yet there are never enough parking spots. And in hospital parking stations, we still get charged the same amount per hour even though the laws say that outside at parking meters we don't have to pay at all. So we drive into hospital parking stations and end up parking so far away from the exits or the elevators that it takes us MUCH longer to get to and from the car, and we end up paying more because of the extra time; we're getting penalised for the lack of disabled spots.</p><p></p><p>Airports are also bad - we have a technique for avoiding the really expensive (usorious?) parking fees at the airport. We arrange ahead of time for the person we're collecting to call our mobile phone (prank call) when they've collected their bags and are at the bus terminal. Then we leave our parking spot away from the airport (five minutes down the road) and drive trough, getting stuck behind a bus at the terminal. This gives our passenger time to jump in with their bags. We then drive just up the road a small distance to more carefully pack the car, fasten everything down, say g'day properly and work out our plans from there.</p><p></p><p>It's got so that husband & I have our favourite spots to wait when collecting someone from the airport. We pull up, park in the shade, drink our coffee and read a book while listening to the radio (or even watching TV on easy child 2/difficult child 2's little portable TV plugged into the lighter socket). We could be half an hour, we could be longer. But at $20 a half hour, we're saving big bikkies.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 219124, member: 1991"] I get narky that hospitals and medical centres seem to have the same proportion of disabled spots as shopping malls. Administrators forget that you get more disabled people visiting hospitals and medical centres, yet there are never enough parking spots. And in hospital parking stations, we still get charged the same amount per hour even though the laws say that outside at parking meters we don't have to pay at all. So we drive into hospital parking stations and end up parking so far away from the exits or the elevators that it takes us MUCH longer to get to and from the car, and we end up paying more because of the extra time; we're getting penalised for the lack of disabled spots. Airports are also bad - we have a technique for avoiding the really expensive (usorious?) parking fees at the airport. We arrange ahead of time for the person we're collecting to call our mobile phone (prank call) when they've collected their bags and are at the bus terminal. Then we leave our parking spot away from the airport (five minutes down the road) and drive trough, getting stuck behind a bus at the terminal. This gives our passenger time to jump in with their bags. We then drive just up the road a small distance to more carefully pack the car, fasten everything down, say g'day properly and work out our plans from there. It's got so that husband & I have our favourite spots to wait when collecting someone from the airport. We pull up, park in the shade, drink our coffee and read a book while listening to the radio (or even watching TV on easy child 2/difficult child 2's little portable TV plugged into the lighter socket). We could be half an hour, we could be longer. But at $20 a half hour, we're saving big bikkies. Marg [/QUOTE]
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