Parking is what?

Here it is! It was done! You have become a happy owner of your own car. The first timid steps on the path of the city driver have been overcome, the starting line has been passed, it was possible to get from the showroom to the house. Here the lucky guy can wait for the first, but not the last unpleasant surprise - to put the car nowhere.

Gates and departures from courtyards, cars standing on sidewalks and curbs, closed approaches to shops and all kinds of institutions - everything that terribly irritates the pedestrian, who briskly and quickly overcomes all obstacles on his own two, for a car owner - a nightmare And the real reason for daily stress. The usual parking can solve the problem. This is a specially equipped area for personal or business vehicles. In practice, residents of large cities have only to dream of their own car place and to throw their swallow near the round-the-clock nalvajki not far from their home.

Where to become?

This question will torment the driver on the way from home to the destination every minute, and maybe even more often. It's good when the road leads to a shopping center, a supermarket or to work in an office center. In the majority of these institutions, the opportunity to park a car not far from the building is a trump card and a way of self-promotion. Corporate parking is a mark of good organization. It is not for nothing that in the advertising brochures the availability of parking is always mentioned first. But personal parking for employees and guests is not at all, and in case of the appearance of this parking lot may not be available to a simple mortal, since it is intended for more privileged visitors.

So we have to circumnavigate the city streets again, squeezing the car between the more expensive Lexus and the no less valuable BMW. If there is a place, there is no guarantee that parking is allowed there. You can take a chance and, having returned with purchases from the store or with a receipt from the bank, find that the car was taken away by the tow truck.

What are the parking lots?

The most optimal option for the preservation of their own funds, car and nerves will be the search for a special equipped parking. They are different, and recently there is a good tendency to increase the number of such parking lots. In the parking lot, there may be a different way of paying for services, and the time for which you can leave the car under supervision, as well as the principle of parking arrangements.

For the sleeping areas of large cities, the most typical example of car parks is a ground parking - it is a perimeter fence guarded by the guard and theoretically responsible for the car when you put it there.

Why theoretically? Because for the certainty of this it is necessary to draw up an agreement in which the conditions for cooperation are specified, the actions of the parking administration in case of force majeure, the possibility of obtaining compensation, etc.

More modern and high-quality is considered underground parking. In Russia in general and in Moscow in particular, such parking is not very much, most often they are located under very large shopping and entertainment complexes or on the lower tiers of huge residential neighborhoods consisting of new buildings.

A huge plus that distinguishes this parking is that the car is in a dry, warm and ventilated room. Such parking lots usually establish a high-quality video surveillance system, which significantly reduces the risk of theft of the car and the theft of personal belongings of drivers from the car salon. In addition, when such a parking project is designed, the base is initially laid down a good capacity. This allows you to easily find a good place for the car.

Leave the transport can not be something for a couple of hours, but even for days and weeks. This is especially true for parking lots located near railway stations and airports.

Similar to the arrangement and safety principle, there may be a Moscow parking located on the upper floors (or on the roof) of buildings. True, there are very few such parking lots in the capital, because they presuppose a special design of engineering structures, reinforced bases and floors of houses, special conveyors or tracks for cars.

Do not go to the fortuneteller

Very pleased that the authorities are trying to improve the situation with the load of roads, but to solve this problem without the arrangement of normal parking spaces is unrealistic. The city officials forecast by 2020 to solve the problem with a lack of parking. For this purpose it is planned to create so-called parking interceptors, which will be located near metro stations and major road junctions. In addition, it was possible to substantially relieve the center of the capital due to the expansion of the real area of parking spaces.

It is noteworthy that there is a tendency to establish modern and high-tech parking lots. These are ground structures that occupy a very small area, but thanks to the compact arrangement of cars and their manufacturability, they can accommodate a lot of cars in one place.

The difficulty is that such designs are borrowed abroad, and domestic legislation does not provide for this kind of parking.

Harsh realities

The plans of the state husbands always look great in theory and on paper, when it comes to their realization, then the real problems begin. It's no secret that the state budget is simply not able to solve all the problems simultaneously, and unloading the roads and sidewalks of the country is by no means a priority for officials, so only investors are left to rely.

Those who are planning to open a parking lot have to face a huge number of difficulties. Constantly changing legislation, lack of prescribed terms and concepts in basic laws, bureaucracy and paper red tape do not allow you to establish a profitable business, and car owners to solve the problem with the house for their car.

"If we do not climb straight through, we'll come in a sideways ..."

A separate issue that interests car owners: what kind of car parking in the parking lot they are supposed to? According to the rules, for the storage of one car in the parking lot, a section of 5 m and 2.5 m in length should be provided. Within this framework, the driver will easily be able to place his iron horse, but in practice this rule is rarely observed.

Parkings that are dealt with according to the issued documents, at least approximately, but observe similar dimensions of the parking lot, and spontaneous parking, street parking along the roads and even more yard areas are in complete chaos. Drivers have to poke the car in any more or less suitable place, but how it costs, no one understands. At least until until you need to drive away the driver parked next to the car.

A state-of-the-art system for collecting money

Residents of the Russian capital are particularly difficult to drive. Long traffic jams, lack of parking, chaos on the roads are daily realities faced by drivers of private cars, public and special vehicles. In recent years, the problem has been solved a little. This became possible due to the city program "Parking Moscow".

Its essence is that all parking places are systematized and streamlined, and a competent system of parking payment is developed. Money for the service can be made in a variety of ways, from Internet payments and SMS and ending with the usual payment of money through terminals and parking lots.

Of course, there is also a fly in the ointment in the barrel of honey: the system often fails, and the developers sometimes solve problems for months. However, judging by the reports of road services, the metropolitan movement still managed to unload and largely thanks to the Moscow parking system.