Ramadan is over
Well I survived, must have seen 20 accidents or the results of accidents plus some of the worst driving in the world but both car and owner made it through. Hopefully work will settle now as well with people being contactable and less temperamental.
Today's little rant is on parking, or rather the total lack of it in this town.
Now in Dubai there is not really a choice of transport. While taxis are ok they quickly get expensive and one glance at the busses will convince most people to reach for the car keys. Cars are it for all practical purposes and one of the rules of a society that moves by car is that it has to park at both ends of the journey.
However parking spaces are expensive and with a building code that is very loose when it comes to parking provision we are left with some horrendous situations that are steadily getting worse.
While the railway may help eventually by then the situation will have descended into chaos.
One prime example is Internet/media city with cars parked on every square foot of ground and only paid valet parking available for visiting clients. What were they (DIC DMC) thinking, how did they expect people to get to work, teleporting? Considering the rents and charges the place has I'm surprised there hasn't been an uprising against the DMC goons.
And next in a spectacular series of parking cockups will be the Jumeriah beach reservation, 75000 occupants - 35000 spaces expect every road for miles around to be jammed with parked cars. Every household in Dubai that can afford a JBR flat will have 2 cars a fact that even Dubai builders are very well aware of, so that will be down to greed and a lack of accountability again then, sometimes feels that this is pretty much the story of the city .
Off to the pub for an afternoon pint, why? Because I can
Cheers DW
Today's little rant is on parking, or rather the total lack of it in this town.
Now in Dubai there is not really a choice of transport. While taxis are ok they quickly get expensive and one glance at the busses will convince most people to reach for the car keys. Cars are it for all practical purposes and one of the rules of a society that moves by car is that it has to park at both ends of the journey.
However parking spaces are expensive and with a building code that is very loose when it comes to parking provision we are left with some horrendous situations that are steadily getting worse.
While the railway may help eventually by then the situation will have descended into chaos.
One prime example is Internet/media city with cars parked on every square foot of ground and only paid valet parking available for visiting clients. What were they (DIC DMC) thinking, how did they expect people to get to work, teleporting? Considering the rents and charges the place has I'm surprised there hasn't been an uprising against the DMC goons.
And next in a spectacular series of parking cockups will be the Jumeriah beach reservation, 75000 occupants - 35000 spaces expect every road for miles around to be jammed with parked cars. Every household in Dubai that can afford a JBR flat will have 2 cars a fact that even Dubai builders are very well aware of, so that will be down to greed and a lack of accountability again then, sometimes feels that this is pretty much the story of the city .
Off to the pub for an afternoon pint, why? Because I can
Cheers DW
posted by Desert_Weasel at 2:13 pm
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A few years ago, when DMC really began to take off, parking suddenly became a major problem. There enlightened solution at that time was to tip off the cops and get illegal parkers ticketed. Yep, that really helped solve the problem. I sent a few emails to DMC management, who assured me that parking provision was in line with Western norms. I pointed out to them that in any major European city, only a small proportion would arrive in their own car - the rest would travel by bike, bus, metro, car pool or even on foot. Eventually they realised that they had to do something, and they have. But it's still a problem most days.
And yes, JBR looks like a total nightmare in the making!
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