Ownership of a car may not be a form of REAL convenience when living in a city which lacks parking space. To be honest, it is rather annoying. And like an irony, not enough parking lots in the city would mean ”less” convenience despite owning a car. Cos you need to walk a further distance which provides a parking ‘opportunity’ and to walk back again to pick up the car:
Finding ONE parking lot
could sometimes exasperate Zsolt.
Driving in the area several rounds,
can really make him frown.
This is what annoys Zsolt in Budapest :p 50 Daily Photo sites are participating in the 1st February theme, “What really annoys you in your city”, please use the links to below to visit them.
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Love the reflection of the city in the bonnet!
if you drive in shanghai, in the downtown, the situation is the same….
but i dont drive….
….
:)
Traffic is bad here as well, but because there is zero public transportation everyone must have a car.
Very funny. Especially the part about driving the area several round … We had two cars for year. One for my wife and one for me. About six months ago we gave one of the cars up and I thought the impact would be intolerable. Today I hate the idea of going back to a two car family. I love my walk to work. — lot Zsolt rounds frowns — too cool.
I just saw Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth, and now I feel even more guilty about taking a car. Maybe not enough parking spaces is a way to encourage people to walk or take public transportation. Good choice of photos!
great photo today and I LOVED the photo of the big shoe from a few days ago.
My relatives have the same problem in Paris, Zannie, and I go through this when I visit them. Don’t understand how they can cope! I am lucky that I live in a suburb where parking space is plentiful… lucky me!
Great post – get a bike!!
but hese are all neatly parked. You could never see this scene in Milan!!! All cars are parked where they want to.
c’est un bon theme, et à Paris c’est pareil et en plus la Marie a decidée de faire la guerre aux voitures
it is a good topic, and in Paris it is similar and in more the Marie decided to make the war with the cars
parking is getting into a big problem in singapore too. zannnie can tell u. we take public transport.
I agree lack of parking space is really annoying. I know, some will say take public transportation but where I live I need my car.
Growing population of Nelson, we may have soon same issue.
Wrong key and caps lock, That annoying! Sorry about previous comment, is there any away to delete it?
Now, start over…
We have growing population in Nelson region, and soon those parking issue will be a problem. Our public transportation does not feasible to be increase… We have only few bus service.
We feel your pain! After living in San Francisco we learned a vehicle was not necessarily an asset. Would you believe we used to plan money into our yearly budget for parking tickets from street sweeping days when we would forget to move the car (no garages to be had). We’ve been a one vehicle couple ever since and ride our bikes and use the public transit whenever possible, especially if heading downtown. Great photo to illustrate the situation.
-Kim
oh yes… that’s annoying… and it happens here too, long walks to get back to your car!
Oh, the space we devote to the car! We build little houses for them to live in, and huge ribbons of concrete for them to drive on, and tollways and computers and cop cars to police them….and on and on and on!
That does not happen so much here in Albuquerque. It used to happen all the time in New York. My parking space was about 6 blocks from the building I lived in! Part of the reason I headed for a smaller city!
Now in Delta, parking is not an issue at all, and being without a car would mean buying a horse! A horse in the city, now that would be a problem :)
Before we got married, Ben used to have to walk 20 minutes to get to his car and his usual paid parking spot! Some people in Tokyo take the bus to get to their cars! Not worth is. (OK, so here in Nelson I’m kind of stuck because I don’t drive, but that’s another story!)