German Parking GarageThis is pretty amazing!
The two photos were taken at a new parking garage in Munich. The actual space that the facility occupies is approximately only 20% of a comparable facility with the traditional design that is used primarily in the US.
Not only is the German structure less expensive to build, but vehicles are also "retrieved" in less time andwithout the potential of being damaged by an attendant.
As parking becomes a premium and real estate prices escalate this will be the future of parking in city centre.
However, councils will be reluctant to endorse such schemes 'cos there will be no parking fines for them to get their grubby little hands on.
Once one council or developer is brave enough to build the first then the rest will follow ... and it will free up a great deal more 'end of journey' spaces desperately required to regenerate city centres.
No more driving around polluting while you look for a space. No more fines after being tempted to take a chance parking for a couple of minutes.
This is the future... only trouble I can see is when everybody comes back for their car at the same time.
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In the event of a black out, we'd be fortunate enough to get out of work early shame we wouldn't be able to retrieve our car to actually get home though.
One person forgets to apply their handbrake and everyone suffers.
And I dread to think of the costs of such a car park, I'm willing to bet the initial construction and subsequent maintenance fees would make it so expensive putting up with PCNs would be the cheaper option.
This is obviously computer controlled,power failure or input error will mean the car will not be retrievable
Its' not a car park as such, it's VW's Transparent Factory sold vehicle storage facillity.The building is located in the heart of Dresden, Germany
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