Wednesday, 08 April 2009
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The Sound and the Fury 4/5
Maybe it's because I drive a hybrid and it was in electric mode the whole time, but this girl was walking down the side of the church parking lot with her friends and then suddenly strayed into the middle of the driveway as she put on her sweater! I wanted to "blast" my horn but it was at church, and safety trumps getting to church on time; I guess I should've just opened my window and let the 12" sub take control. I think the parking lot needs to be reconfigured, because while there is a pedestrian footpath, most people don't use it because the sanctuary is on the opposite side of the driveway. Granted, it is a parking lot and drivers shouldn't be popping wheelies or going above 5-10 mph, but even if you deign to take a leisurely stroll, please be mindful of drivers who are trying to get to church on time!
So the green box (top left corner) is the area towards where the sanctuary is, the blue box is handicapped parking, the brown boxes are regular parking spots, and the black arrow represents the ideal flow of pedestrian traffic on the pathway. The problem is that the shortest distance between 2 points is a straight line, so instead of gravitating towards the pathway (away from the shortest path) those who parked in the 2-way section will tend to walk in the flow of vehicular traffic instead. To make things worse, as they walk towards the sanctuary, they would be blind to vehicles headed in the same direction behind them. I'm not a traffic engineer but I tried to rework the parking situation and came up with this idea... instead of 3 flows of vehicular traffic, it would have to be reduced to one way in each section.
In this proposed solution, the church-bound lane would have to be wider than the current one-way section to accommodate the handicapped transit bus. When approaching vehicles are fanning into the main parking area, safety is enhanced such that pedestrians and motorists would be able to see one another. (Had the plan to have a designated hybrid parking section close to the sanctuary for the next development phase gone through, without this proposed solution there'd be a greater chance of people not hearing them coming and getting hit. Of course, legislation is currently underway to make some form of sound required.) Now, what I want to see next is drivers who are more considerate about parking in spots designated as Compact!
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Comments (6)
This is too long, what is the summary in two sentences? Haha
Man, I HATE the Evergreen parking lot. It's the only place I've ever gotten into an accident that did serious damage to my car. And people totally don't pay attention there. I really should just park at Don Bosco, but I get lazy and opportunistic whenever I get there on Sunday and still see spaces open in the main lot. I actually approached the pedestrian traffic flow issue in one of the members meetings when they were planning the "Faith Village" redesign, and got told that the existing layout would work fine if people used the walkway designed for them. Well yeah, lots of things would work if people were actually smart and paid attention...
I heard of some people at Evergreen who met literally by accident in the parking lot LOL... and I like how the above 2 profile pics flow
Those drawings are like a engineer. Oh wait you're a computer engineer, LOL! Looks like Evergreen's parking lots isn't designed really well. I am sure my Dad can do wonders when he is a civil engineer :)
get those roadrunner horns. *meep meep*
I feel my car is not a compact car and besides I wouldn't squeeze in a tight parking space then have a difficult time backing out my car or even getting out of the car.