ASDA : Entrance parking for low emission cars (vent)

The_Pedant

My car is very low on emissions. Whilst it is parked in the space it will give off very few harmful emissions!

They obviously had a spate of highly radioactive cars parking there or something

jamespir

lol they just want it to look pretty in the photos or on google maps

pinkteapot

MamaMoo wrote: »

I wonder how many people will go "well, I was going to buy a Hummer, but if I buy a Prius I can park closer to the doors at Asda. Prius it is!"

Exactly!

Absolutely idiotic idea by the council. This will not change people's behaviour when car-buying. Making all motorways 'low emission cars only' might. A few parking spaces in Asda will not. Idiots.

What are they putting in the water at council planning offices lately? We have a large retail park on the outskirts of our town. Sainsbury's vacated their premises as they moved to a new one. One of the biggest shops on the retail park standing empty and falling into disrepair. The council turned down an application for the site from John Lewis because their new zoning policy says the space has to be occupied by offices now. !!!!!!? What sort of company wants their office in the middle of a retail park?

peter_the_piper

Is it a council owned parking space or just a foible of ASDA?

Tangible

I bet the delivery truck drivers are peeved to be having to park away from the store site and then lug the goods on their backs, but presumably if they use electric forklift trucks to do the carrying then that would save emissions.

Of course that won't be happening, and the inconvenience will be reserved for their customers only, based on the principle of 'do as I say, not do as I do'.

biscit

michaelvintner wrote: »

Even if I had a low emission car, which I don't (145 g/km co2) whatever that means. I would not park anywhere near the door anyway. It always amazes me that people will drive around for hours waiting for a parking space 2cm bigger than their car just so they can be a 1 min walk nearer the door. Anyway how do you define a low emission car. As someone stated if they say anything just point out that your car is parked and when it is parked it is not emitting any co2.

This goes through my head every time some childish buffoon moans about reserved parking spaces.

biscit

HappyMJ wrote: »

I'd rather they imported lamb from New Zealand. It's only done at certain times of the year when Welsh lamb is not available. It's cheaper on both the pocket and environment to fly it in than spend millions on huge freezers and running power stations to keep those millions of lambs frozen for 6 months waiting for somone to buy them in the off season.

Really? Where did you get the figures from?

King_Nothing

Hmmmm if these appear at my local asda I might have to use them, like said before, if my cars parked it's emitting no emmissions, it's only when I'm driving it that it's spewing out loads of CO2 from it's turbo'd petrol engine

fluffnutter

peter_the_piper wrote: »

Is it a council owned parking space or just a foible of ASDA?

I can only assume it's an Asda policy. AFAIK councils haven't yet started delimiting parking areas on grounds of emission rates. If this were a council stipulation they'd never put 'low emission only' because that's simply not informative enough.

Think what you like about councils but they tend to operate along more stringent lines than that - if they're going to create a new bye-law which forbids parking for certain types of vehicle in certain areas they'd be more instructive than that. Councils can legitimately fine you if you break bye-laws - a sign saying 'low emissions' would be a legislative nightmare to enforce or justify (what's the definition of 'low emission'?) and they'd be opening themselves up to all sorts of counter-claims and criticism.

Nope, this type of vague nonsense is most definitely the work of a private company which likes to make up 'rules' and pretend they're 'laws'.

dontone

peter_the_piper wrote: »

What is the point of low emission cars parking closest. If the Pug 107 is anything to go by they cant put much more than a briefcase in what is laughingly called a boot.

LOL. I'll have you know that I can get a weeks full shop (for 2 people) in the boot of my Pug 107 - AS LONG as I don't stock up on wide packed bog rolls, they have to go on the back seat. That includes carrier bags stuffed with whoopsies, freezer stuff etc.
'tis a fine art chuck, you have to look at it as a sort of shopping bag jigsaw, and fit the bits in carefully .
Granted I can get carried away a little and may have to shove stuff in the footwells occassionally, but that's because my Pug costs so little to run, I can afford some extra snap :T
BTW Barnsley have redone their car park and it's worse than before, the posh car owners complained that parking on the new pedestrian crossing front of the new glass entrance makes them have to walk a whopping extra 5 yards from their cars into the store :rotfl: