Parking, French style

French parking spaces

I think the picture says it all, but in case you don’t see it, there are some parking bay lines painted over a new walkway and garden. Was the painter annoyed at the loss of some car parks to this nicer-looking layout? Did common sense really not prevail when the painter had to step up onto the walkway to continue the line? Meanwhile, at the entrance to the right, the painter must have had an attack of the smarts and realised that painting the line parallel to the other bays would leave no room for cars to drive into the lot, so the line remains faded and old. It didn’t stop him/her from marking the white line at the top of the parking bay, so what we have on the right is some sort of diagonal parking, blocking both a pedestrian walkway and the car park entrance. Parking bay painting fail.

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6 Comments on “Parking, French style

  1. Umm, yeah! I suspect there might be a slightly mitigating reason behind this as opposed to the pure stupidity argument you’re postulating here, but I get what you mean. It looks ridiculous 🙂

  2. Sab, I admit that I sometimes poke fun to make a story sound more entertaining for a blog entry, but what possible logical reason can there be for the lines to be drawn over a newly-placed garden and walkway? This is one blog entry that requires no extra effort from me!