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[Linear Thinker]

Have two or three "reserved for carshare" spots in the parkades.

Driver still has to pay for the time in the parkade.

Same as the electric vehicle only spaces.

[LJ]

^But make them on the top floor.

[shoeflack]

They are doing some soil testing/drilling of some kind in the Robbins parking lot that runs between the 800-block of Yates and Johnson. Sings are up stating the closure of the lot today and Monday. Another surface lot soon to be lost...?

 

Round 2. This lot is closed again today and tomorrow for some more drilling. Not checking of the existing observation boreholes, but actual drilling of new ones.

 

As a side note, a few cars that normally park in this lot obviously relocated to the Robbins lot on the 900-block of Fort/View. That lot has a weird layout, with two rows of normal parking and then parallel parking along the east edge of the lot. Well, some rookies to this lot were parking normally against that eastern edge, so the lot is a mess today. Robbins staff were in full force ticketing. Kind of a shame really. They close one lot forcing folks to use this one, a lot that has painted lines that are at the last 1% of visibility and they're still ticketing. If you didn't use this lot normally, you wouldn't have a clue how to park in it either. Bit of a douche move.

Edited by shoeflack, 18 August 2016 - 08:04 AM.

[sebberry]

Bit of a douche move.

You expected better from Robbins?

[VicHockeyFan]

Round 2. This lot is closed again today and tomorrow for some more drilling. Not checking of the existing observation boreholes, but actual drilling of new ones.

 

As a side note, a few cars that normally park in this lot obviously relocated to the Robbins lot on the 900-block of Fort/View. That lot has a weird layout, with two rows of normal parking and then parallel parking along the east edge of the lot. Well, some rookies to this lot were parking normally against that eastern edge, so the lot is a mess today. Robbins staff were in full force ticketing. Kind of a shame really. They close one lot forcing folks to use this one, a lot that has painted lines that are at the last 1% of visibility and they're still ticketing. If you didn't use this lot normally, you wouldn't have a clue how to park in it either. Bit of a douche move.

 

Could it be they are prepping this for sale?  The fire exit being removed next door must mean something.  Does anyone know who owns this lot?

[Mike K.]

I wonder if this Chard's next move. In an email exchange yesterday he did mention something was afoot.

Meanwhile the crew working on Escher is aware that their firm will be handling a project north AND south of Escher, but they don't have any details.

[VicHockeyFan]

Round 2. This lot is closed again today and tomorrow for some more drilling. Not checking of the existing observation boreholes, but actual drilling of new ones.

 

As a side note, a few cars that normally park in this lot obviously relocated to the Robbins lot on the 900-block of Fort/View. That lot has a weird layout, with two rows of normal parking and then parallel parking along the east edge of the lot. Well, some rookies to this lot were parking normally against that eastern edge, so the lot is a mess today. Robbins staff were in full force ticketing. Kind of a shame really. They close one lot forcing folks to use this one, a lot that has painted lines that are at the last 1% of visibility and they're still ticketing. If you didn't use this lot normally, you wouldn't have a clue how to park in it either. Bit of a douche move.

 

https://www.facebook...251808781505458

 

I pay $185/month on parking Robbins Parking Lot 70 beside Lunds Auction House . 4 Morons have blocked the side of the entrance of the parking lot. Who taught these people to park? Any comments? ‪#‎yyj‬‪#‎victoria‬

 

[VicHockeyFan]

So whatever they did last week at the Yates parking lot, sure was messy.

 

 

 

[Mike K.]

Who wants to bet Chard might have something going on here?

[Mr Cook Street]

Who wants to bet Chard might have something going on here?

I sure hope so. 

[aastra]

All I ask is:

 

a) not a widescraper, and

b) a decent amount of glass coverage

 

I'm not feeling it with the one they're building on the other side of Yates.

[RFS]

Whatever they build here will be across the street from the new as yet unnamed homeless shelter so there's that

[sdwright.vic]

So why doesn't the city have a developer build a floor or two of underground parking, the city will own it but allow the owner full lease and income rights for x number of years to replace some of this parking thats disappearing?

[HB]

Sometime during last night a vehicle backed into the lead car and made a SUV sandwich.

The cars have dew on them confirming they had been parked there during the night.

This is on Mason Street next to the smoke spewing Wildfire Bakery

The welfare office was supplying video recordings of the area to help identify the offending vehicle however the recording only covers from the SUV towards Quadra.

 

[sebberry]

Welcome to the Why You Need a Dashcam show...

[nagel]

So why doesn't the city have a developer build a floor or two of underground parking, the city will own it but allow the owner full lease and income rights for x number of years to replace some of this parking thats disappearing?

If it makes sense at the private level then go for it.

 

However if it's publicly mandated this is a parking subsidy funded either by increased costs to the condo purchaser (exacerbating the affordable housing problem) or additional costs to the city (increasing taxes, again exacerbating the affordable housing problem).

[HB]

While I was checking out this SUV sandwich a jerkwad in a delivery truck pulls up and since there were no parking spots at the curb for his truck he decided to park his truck in the middle of the road and block a parked car and a lane of he road then proceeded to off-load the bakery supplies with his pallet jack and giving exactly zero F*cks about anyone else on the road

 

This R&B Trucking firm is notorious for employing idiot drivers.

 

Before I decided to film the scene a COV ticket scooter guy drove past and he too gave exactly zero F*cks about the truck blocking the road.

 

Lisa Helps would be all over it if it were a bike lane that was blocked but when it comes to commercial delivery vehicles its a free for all while regular everyday drivers are handed tickets like they are Halloween candy

 

The driver asked me later why I filmed his truck and him....that question proving beyond a reasonable doubt that he is clueless

 

http://youtu.be/K3S9dyT57Gk

Edited by HB, 18 October 2016 - 08:56 AM.

[nagel]

Seems fine to me there's still room to get around.

[Rob Randall]

^^A minor inconvenience. Like nagel says, enough room to maneuver around. This is the price we pay for the benefit of having a place to grab a coffee and snack every 100 metres.

 

I've been to Paris, Bangkok, Rome and Manhattan and if you showed this video to them they'd say, why is your downtown street so quiet and deserted in the morning? 

[weirdie]

There's someone in that video blocking traffic and being a nuisance, and it isn't the delivery driver.