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What Are The Different Kinds of Parking Bollards? Why Should You Choose Them?

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There are several aspects people consider when selecting the ideal bollard parking solution to address their parking problem. The best way to choose a bollard parking solution should be to consider the following factors: If one of these factors is critical to you, you may want to take a look at the winners in each…

Can a Formula 1 Racing Car Drive Upside Down? 🏎️🏎️ πŸ’¨πŸ’¨

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FUN FACT: Can a Formula 1 car really drive upside down? πŸŽοΈπŸ’¨ According to the Formula 1 Official website, the answer is YES. A modern Formula One car is capable of developing 3.5g lateral cornering force (three and a half times its own weight) thanks to aerodynamic downforce. That means, that theoretically, at high speeds…

Visitor Parking: What can you do when residents abuse?

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In our last blog we explained who can, and how they should, use visitor parking bays in a residential strata building. What can you do when residents and owners abuse visitor parking bays in residential strata buildings? Parking their own vehicles there excessively? 😑😑😑 There’s a series of things the Owners Corporation can legally do…

Strata parking – who’s who in the Parking Zoo?

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Parking spaces in residential strata buildings are a very sensitive and often hotly contested topic. Most strata buildings have parking spaces allocated to residential lots and a few visitor parking spaces. In New South Wales, for example, the New South Wales Department of Planning and Environment, has issued SEPP 65 and the Apartment Design Guide…

Challenging behaviour that infuriates people accessing disabled parking

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Disabled parking bays are often designed with shared access bays next to them. These are generally either cross-hatched or marked out as shared space, so people don’t park right next to the disabled parking bay. These shared access bays are to allow access for wheelchair ramps to be opened from a car, but often other…

The intersection of SDG GOAL 11 and the UN Human Rights Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (β€œCRPD”)

Goal 11 of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development goals is to: β€œMake cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable” The United Nations (UN) has identified sustainable transport as a critical core component of Goal 11. World leaders recognized unanimously at the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio +20) that transportation and…

Off-street parking solutions – how the latest technology is improving the way we park

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Is traditional on-street parking on the way out? Since COVID, in early 2020, cities across the world vastly reduced on-street parking to allow for improved social distancing. So has this started the beginning of a global shift away from on-street parking? MIT Professor, Eran Ben-Joseph estimates there are 800 million surface parking spaces in the…

Obtaining Owners Corporation approval to install parking bollards in your building

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As a building or strata manager, are you sick and tired of handling the complaints from residents in a commercial or residential property about people constantly parking in their spots. Is it something that you’re asked to solve on a regular basis? Does it come up each and every year on the agenda for the…

How to Install a Parking Bollard

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YAY! You’re excited now you’ve found a solution to stop other people parking in your parking spot! A parking bollard from thatsmyspot to protect your parking space. And now, how to install it? Easy as! πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€ Like taking the stress out of your parking pain, we make it simple to install as well. All our…

Solving your parking pain points ! 😑😑😑

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ISN’T IT SO FRUSTRATING WHEN SOMEONE PARKS IN YOUR PARKING SPOT SO YOU CAN’T USE IT! SOLUTION: INSTALL A PARKING BOLLARD! πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€ OMG – HOW FRUSTRATING is it when you pull up in your own designated parking space, whether at work or home, and some inconsiderate sod has decided that they would just find it…