arndale center - drivers beware - Page 2

Bagpuss · 19-04-2005, 20:36

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

At least on Aldi you can see the parking spaces

Except when the gypos have taken up all the car park.

Margaret Pilkington · 19-04-2005, 20:40

Oh......I didn't go anywhere near it that weekend.......it must have cost Aldi thousands in lost sales.

K.S.H · 19-04-2005, 20:51

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Originally Posted by Gobsmacked

The amount of room they give you to get onto the ramps to the higher levels must have been designed for minis too. Has anyone ever succeeded in parking an mpv in there?

I once went in with a Frontera with roof rails on, notice I said once

Got very close to them roof beams, or at least it seemed like i did, I know the aerial touched and it was only a short one

grego · 19-04-2005, 21:27

There isn't much space in the Arndale car park, when Ellie was a baby I often took up 2 spaces it was the only way to give myself enough room to get the baby seat in and out, it was either that or park on the top floor but its not good up there and you certainly dont feel safe. I dont do it now and try to make sure I'm within the lines, I've had my car scratched twice now with other drivers misjudging the space, nobody owns up either.

PurpleLass · 19-04-2005, 21:32

What I don't understand about the Arndale car park is why one ramp is narrower than the other. My car can't breathe in as it's going up to the next level, so what's that all about?

Gobsmacked · 19-04-2005, 21:34

At one side there is a footpath which probably accounts for the narrowness. I don't think they allowed for it in the planning. It must be one of the worst multi-story car parks ever built.

PurpleLass · 19-04-2005, 21:36

But that's the wider side, even with the footpath! I don't think they planned it at all.

WillowTheWhisp · 19-04-2005, 22:03

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Originally Posted by Bagpuss

Except when the gypos have taken up all the car park.

Thankfully that didn't last long.

Neil · 20-04-2005, 14:06

At least it is free parking still. Not many town's still have free parking.
With all the complaining on this thread about the car park I don't know why anyone still uses it.

chav1 · 20-04-2005, 14:17

you could park for free before it was built and a lot more parking spaces were available come to mention it

to be honest accrington didnt need the arndale center all that happened was that buisnesses moved into it leaving empty shops on broad way and in the old arcade leaving plenty of room for cheap shops and charity shops

all the arndale has acheived is less parking , killed off broadway and the destruction of one of accringtons established pubs

just think back to before the arndale was around we had a thriving town

we had a currys
dixons
granada rentals
a gas shop
i think we had a norweb shop as well
tescos
shifters - although a sh1t hole it was a good pub
cinema - I mean a good cinema not the crap we have now

just seems to me that since the arndale came along accrington has slowly died

cashman · 20-04-2005, 15:12

i also think our town has gone downhill since the arndale arrived,i know you shouldn't get stuck in the past,but what about(IF ITS NOT BROKE DON'T FIX IT)

WillowTheWhisp · 20-04-2005, 15:48

I think the shops that closed (Curry's, Granada TV etc) would have closed anyway and before the Arndale we didn't have a Marks & Spencers. That came with the very first stage of the Arndale way back when the sunken gardens were lost. The Odeon cinema closed down long before that block was redeveloped too.

The car park was supposed to be built with the same number of parking spaces that existed on the old car park which may account for why the spaces are so cramped and the ramps such a tight squeeze. (Save them going up another floor level to make more)

The worst thing to happen to Broadway is that hideous block with Wilkinson's in it.

slinky · 20-04-2005, 15:58

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Originally Posted by Sara

A friend of mine got fined a few weeks ago for parking over the line, she's appealed against the fine but don't know how she's got on.

A friend of mine also got a ticket lately because he put the green disc into his car window, went to the iceland and when he returned he noticed a traffic warden walking away from his car. He looked in his window and noticed he had got a ticket. He shouted the warden back and asked why he had a ticket the warden said '' you haven't displayed your green disc''.
My mate looked in his window and it had gone. When he checked (explaining to the warden that he had) it had fallen on the floor. It had probably fallen when shutting his door and hadn't noticed. My friend was livid and the smug traffic warden smerked and said ''tough luck, I've wrote it now''. As to say my friend was contemplating taking the smug gits teeth out without pain relief. So please be careful and make sure when you have shut your door that the green disc has stayed in place. I would hate to think this happens to alot of people, I would rather throw my money down the drain rather than pay them b''''''s.

WINGY · 20-04-2005, 16:06

Well this aint such a big problem for me seeing that i can't even get in the Arndale carpark, never mind trying to negotiate the tight ramps on one side ( apperantly it was built wrong so the ramps on one side are bigger than the other). On the point of the width, for those people with kids, its really hard to get your young ones in and out of the car when there is no elbow room, hence the parent and child spaces at the big super markets. When my daughter was younger i used to park on the higher levels just for the empty room, and you could rely on someone parking right next to you when there were loads of spaces grrrrrr.......

cashman · 20-04-2005, 16:49

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Originally Posted by slinky

A friend of mine also got a ticket lately because he put the green disc into his car window, went to the iceland and when he returned he noticed a traffic warden walking away from his car. He looked in his window and noticed he had got a ticket. He shouted the warden back and asked why he had a ticket the warden said '' you haven't displayed your green disc''.
My mate looked in his window and it had gone. When he checked (explaining to the warden that he had) it had fallen on the floor. It had probably fallen when shutting his door and hadn't noticed. My friend was livid and the smug traffic warden smerked and said ''tough luck, I've wrote it now''. As to say my friend was contemplating taking the smug gits teeth out without pain relief. So please be careful and make sure when you have shut your door that the green disc has stayed in place. I would hate to think this happens to alot of people, I would rather throw my money down the drain rather than pay them b''''''s.

don't surprise me i know a lady who put her disc in an still got done,she was only down town over 1 hour,she had inadvertantly put the wrong TIME on her disc.possibly due to the crap lighting!