Striped lines and crazy morning people

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   Question...  If the stripes were painted yellow, would you still park there?

	IMHO, and at the risk of stirring up a real BIG hornet's nest, the issue of illegal parking, whether on white stripes or along the curb, is just another indicator of the "me first" mentality that permeates this area.  And yes, I'll admit that I get it myself sometimes, but I hope it doesn't manifest itself in ways that could possibly endanger others.

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ronin718 Members Profile Find Members Posts New Slug Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Location: VA Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote ronin718 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 03 Jun 2004 at 8:06am
	Question... If the stripes were painted yellow, would you still park there? IMHO, and at the risk of stirring up a real BIG hornet's nest, the issue of illegal parking, whether on white stripes or along the curb, is just another indicator of the "me first" mentality that permeates this area. And yes, I'll admit that I get it myself sometimes, but I hope it doesn't manifest itself in ways that could possibly endanger others.

glacier Members Profile Find Members Posts New Slug Joined: 11 Dec 2002 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote glacier Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 02 Jun 2004 at 5:05pm
	How did this drift from strips to blue signed handicapped parking? Lets stay of topic. Cheers, Glacier

shahedC Members Profile Find Members Posts New Slug Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote shahedC Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 02 Jun 2004 at 4:27pm
	tdar20, my striped area is far away from the handicapped zone, and is not blocking the road. yes, it would be more difficult for a fire engine to get in there and make turns, but if that were my intention, i would not accomplish anything by not parking in that spot. i will try to get to the lot earlier to find a real parking spot, but for those of us who are going as early as they can and still not finding a spot, what else can they do? you tell me...

avalanche22 Members Profile Find Members Posts New Slug Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Location: va Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote avalanche22 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 02 Jun 2004 at 3:56pm
	What time is early? If my day starts at 8:30 why do I need to be in the slug lot at 7:00 AM. If it�s not me parking in the stripped area it will be somebody else that get to the lot after 7:45. Best believe if there were enough spaces at Horner than there won�t be any illegal parking. So until they expand Horner again, we will always have this issue.

tdar20 Members Profile Find Members Posts New Slug Joined: 29 Jul 2002 Location: va Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote tdar20 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 02 Jun 2004 at 3:47pm
	The handicapped zone is not that far off the point. What if an emergency vehicle needed to get through there and since your blocking the path.....what then? Those zones were put there for a reason and it is not to park in. I go back to my earlier point, leaver earlier so you can get a legal parking spot.

shahedC Members Profile Find Members Posts New Slug Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote shahedC Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 02 Jun 2004 at 12:41pm
	tdar20, I didn't park in a handicapped zone, that is a totally different issue. I wear a wrist splint and a back support belt, and I am surely not in great comfort driving around. But I think there are more people who need those handicapped parking spots, so I would never park there.

emancilla Members Profile Find Members Posts New Slug Joined: 30 Sep 2003 Location: Virginia Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote emancilla Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 02 Jun 2004 at 11:02am
	quote: Originally posted by avalanche22 [br]All I can say this morning (6/2/04) is that I'm parked in the striped line. I got to the parking lot at 7:25 and yes the parking spaces already at 7:15 where gone. Come on now. Where do you expect people that get to the slug lot after 7:30 to park? Anyone that has a problem with it would say go to another lot. But are you going to be the one giving me a ride back home? Are you going to be the one giving me a ride to work? I think not. Now I'm open to suggestions but they have to be reasonable. Oh for those of you having problems with people parking in stripped lines, I guess you have a problem with people parking behind the bus stops too. We all have one thing on our mind. And that thing is to get to work. So everybody let's go to work come home in the afternoon and take your time getting out of the slug lots. It's not the Daytona 500. Just take your time and we all can be happy... For the lady that wanted to yell at you (shahedc). Better you than me. Because police would have been in the area if it was me. She would of yelled but I would have rolled the window up and blasted my music. I would have went Old school and pulled out NWA and let her hear every word they had to say. Oh I would have been on her mind all day. It's true. This morning the parking lot was used full capacity. That includes curbsides and stripped lines spots.

avalanche22 Members Profile Find Members Posts New Slug Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Location: va Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote avalanche22 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 02 Jun 2004 at 10:52am
	Yes I believe that 123 will become a future slug site. But until then we all have to make the best of what we have at horner.

vabigblue Members Profile Find Members Posts New Slug Joined: 16 Jul 2003 Location: VA Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote vabigblue Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 02 Jun 2004 at 10:45am
	I realize this might be a long-term issue; however, do you believe, based on what's written so far, if VDOT will expand the Horner lot or will they suggest and probably enforce parking at the "not so much used" 123 lot? I've got a feeling that with the number of violations, no matter how legal or illegal it seems, the 123 lot may become a future slug site.

avalanche22 Members Profile Find Members Posts New Slug Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Location: va Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote avalanche22 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 02 Jun 2004 at 10:34am
	All I can say this morning (6/2/04) is that I'm parked in the striped line. I got to the parking lot at 7:25 and yes the parking spaces already at 7:15 where gone. Come on now. Where do you expect people that get to the slug lot after 7:30 to park? Anyone that has a problem with it would say go to another lot. But are you going to be the one giving me a ride back home? Are you going to be the one giving me a ride to work? I think not. Now I'm open to suggestions but they have to be reasonable. Oh for those of you having problems with people parking in stripped lines, I guess you have a problem with people parking behind the bus stops too. We all have one thing on our mind. And that thing is to get to work. So everybody let's go to work come home in the afternoon and take your time getting out of the slug lots. It's not the Daytona 500. Just take your time and we all can be happy... For the lady that wanted to yell at you (shahedc). Better you than me. Because police would have been in the area if it was me. She would of yelled but I would have rolled the window up and blasted my music. I would have went Old school and pulled out NWA and let her hear every word they had to say. Oh I would have been on her mind all day.