Avenues Fee Parking Trial – Day 1

12/02/08 15:51 Filed in: Kuwait
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Last night was a trial to start charging fees for the Avenues parking, which turned out to be a disaster! I was enjoying the atmosphere until the congested parking lot turned into a honking horn festival! I could easily hear horns coming from the parking lot while sitting at a café, reminded me of Hamra street!
The Avenues admin decided to make it a “free parking” day, however, everyone has to take a token when entering the parking lot. On the way out, everything collapsed. It was taking so long, the parking lot was over-crowded, so they had to open up the gates where people swiftly passed by and dropped the token in a jar!
An Avenues spokesman confirmed that the parking lot had 3,000 cars and only 6 exits! And what I personally observed is that the token machines at the entrance were very high/distant to an average car anyway.
I’m not against the 200 fils per/hour fee, but the process was a complete failure! Costumers didn’t even start paying, which will definitely consume more time in the future.
As my source “confirmed”, the plan is to open up more exits to the parking lot!

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Alvaro
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