Fixing the Parking Situation - II

As you may recall, a few months back they closed one of the parking lot entrance gates to prevent non-employee cars from passing through, as well as to prevent break-ins (See blog post titled Fixing the Parking Situation for full story). As a result of the closure, everyone was forced to enter/exit through the same gate. In some cases, this forced detour added up to 5min to a person’s commute.

Apparently enough employees complained about the inconvenience that the Shitshow decided to “fix” the situation over the break. Now they could have simply opened up the closed gate, but then non-employees would once again use the parking lot as their shortcut. Honestly, I never thought that cars cutting through the back of the parking lot to be all that big of a problem. Nobody parked there anyway. I think it was just a matter of principle, where some Shitshow bigwig probably said “Hey, that’s our parking lot that we paid for, not some city street to be used by the public.”

So they came up with a third alternative: they would open up the closed gate, but redesign the parking lot in a way that will inconvenience cars from simply passing through. So they brought in a construction crew, put up some barricades, and repainted some lines, creating something that resembles a maze more than it does a parking lot. The new parking lot is designed in such a way that, in order to get from one gate to the other, you have to detour through the middle of the parking lot. Now think about that for a second: they essentially put a car lane in the middle of a parking lot. So to pass though the parking lot, you have to cut through about 10 aisles of parking spots, essentially making 10 intersections within the middle of a parking lot! Not only are there 10 intersections without any stop signs, but in approaching each intersection, your view is greatly obstructed by all the parked cars around you.

Now, you might say “ It’s only a matter of time before the first accident.” Well, you’d be wrong - because it’s already happened. Yup, we’ve already had an accident - on the very first day back from the break! I look forward to seeing more. I just hope nobody gets run over or killed in the meantime.

Once again, because the Shitshow solution to a minor problem causes a much larger problem, I throw rocks.