My turn for needing help - parking

Okay, my company is in an office park that is brand new and has shockingly little parking.  We have a fancy diagram for where we can double park.  People are supposed to leave their name and number on their dash so they can be contacted if double parking someone in.

Issues all the time, as you can imagine.

Today an employee had a family emergency and it took 20 minutes to find the owners of 6 different vehicles so she could leave.  Shocking and not acceptable.

I've been asked what we could do to encourage/incentivise people to car share to work...

So hive mind.... what do you say?  I've got nothing...

Could your company buy space in a nearby car park?  Maybe an unoccupied building?

How about forcing the double parkers to leave their keys at the desk and consent to having their car be driven by someone else?

Having a parking space available at your work is a privilege, I've worked at many places where it was tough titty.

Could your company buy space in a nearby car park?  Maybe an unoccupied building?

How about forcing the double parkers to leave their keys at the desk and consent to having their car be driven by someone else?

Having a parking space available at your work is a privilege, I've worked at many places where it was tough titty.

I'm going to take a photo out of the window.  It's truly shocking.

We have 68 parking spaces and over 200 employees....  the industrial park is building another new building next to us (only spare place left).  I would hope and pray they add in a multi story car park but I know they won't.  I have no idea why the owners selected this place when the parking is so inadequate.  Parking gets absolutely ATROCIOUS as you work your way further into the park. 

Yet immediately behind our car park is overflow parking for J&J and they don't use it.  But if we park there, we are asked to move our vehicles immediately.  It's insane.  Luckily I have an assigned spot. 

The keys at the desk is an idea.  But we really need to reduce the amount of cars on site if at all possible.  No idea how it's possible though.  I mean, if someone lived near me, they aren't going to want to go with me to drop off kid #1 at location #1 and then kid #2 at location #2....  not to mention the arrival/leaving times then being reliant upon someone else...

Designated car share spaces that are close to the building?

High street voucher raffles for car sharers/Cycle/walk/use public transport users?

Some places only let you pick days that you can park in the carpark and the rest of the time you need to find alternatives

Car sharers/Cycle/walk/use public transport users get preferential picks of the products your company gets to have?

All of this would need policed though, but if you have security on site it wouldn't be too hard? 

I think the only incentive that might have an effect would be a financial one. Otherwise (and perhaps even then) forget it!

First thing that came to mind was a park and ride. A lot of big ish town and cities have it. Or perhaps your company can make a deal with the council and buy parking passes cheaply.

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Designated car share spaces that are close to the building?

High street voucher raffles for car sharers/Cycle/walk/use public transport users?

Some places only let you pick days that you can park in the carpark and the rest of the time you need to find alternatives

Car sharers/Cycle/walk/use public transport users get preferential picks of the products your company gets to have?

All of this would need policed though, but if you have security on site it wouldn't be too hard? 

It's the policing that would be impossible.  We don't personally have security and I don't know if our management contract would cover this service.  Something to consider.

I've responded saying we need to push the Cycle to Work scheme.  But that my snarky side says let's clamp the wheel of anyone that doesn't leave their details on their dash as requested. 

I'm going to take a photo out of the window.  It's truly shocking.

We have 68 parking spaces and over 200 employees....  the industrial park is building another new building next to us (only spare place left).  I would hope and pray they add in a multi story car park but I know they won't.  I have no idea why the owners selected this place when the parking is so inadequate.  Parking gets absolutely ATROCIOUS as you work your way further into the park. 

Yet immediately behind our car park is overflow parking for J&J and they don't use it.  But if we park there, we are asked to move our vehicles immediately.  It's insane.  Luckily I have an assigned spot. 

The keys at the desk is an idea.  But we really need to reduce the amount of cars on site if at all possible.  No idea how it's possible though.  I mean, if someone lived near me, they aren't going to want to go with me to drop off kid #1 at location #1 and then kid #2 at location #2....  not to mention the arrival/leaving times then being reliant upon someone else...

Gosh sounds like my work. Our car park we used to rent got bought out and taken away, so we now have about sixty spaces in front of the office for at least 200 people. Some are reserved for visitors, some for people with mobility needs. Which limits it even more.   Somebody built a brand new car park in between our office and another but we cannot use it.  If we park in the company we share offices with spaces they get so mad and threaten bringing in ticketing us.

We do have street parking but sigh.  I’ve taken to parking about half mile away and walking in.

Our office facilities team walk around mid morning and you HAVE to register your car with them. If you don’t they will send mass emails with your registration number until you do.

We do have a bank of spots that can only be used for those car sharing.  You must register for the spot and can only park in the spots if their free after ten pm.  Our work also offers a cycle to work scheme ( not ideal in winter).

Somehow or another we make it work, but I feel the pain your office does.

My first nursing job had this problem. 10 million employees (not really) and 100 spots. We rotated every month who got to park at the hospital based on birth month. Otherwise you had to park at a car park and bus in (they had their own bus system that ran every hour). I hated it but it worked.

My first nursing job had this problem. 10 million employees (not really) and 100 spots. We rotated every month who got to park at the hospital based on birth month. Otherwise you had to park at a car park and bus in (they had their own bus system that ran every hour). I hated it but it worked.

We don't have public transport to the office which is 99% of the problem....  we are quite a distance from the train station.  There *may* be buses but if there are, I've never seen one. 

Issue little razer scooters to each employee.  They keep them in the boot overnight so the have them to ride in from wherever they park in the morning, charge them during the workday, then ride back out to their car.  If it's good enough for Lewis Hamilton, it's good enough for your company's staff. 

Cycle to work scheme is definitely the way forward.   And there are good benefits to the employer as well as the employee:
https://guides.wiggle.co.uk/cycle-work-employers-guide

We don't have public transport to the office which is 99% of the problem....  we are quite a distance from the train station.  There *may* be buses but if there are, I've never seen one.

Yea although it wasn't public, I can see the issue (just small employee shuttles that the hospital owned and they had a lot of $$ but were shite to work for  ). I hope you guys find a solution

Not sure if somebody mentioned this (haven't read the whole thread yet) but could you have a "register" sheet where people register to park by putting in name/REG and then if there is somebody blocked in, you can just contact them on Skype? And make note of the area in which they sit so somebody can go and physically find them? If possible, could your HR department also look at doing some type of cycle-to-work scheme? Or maybe look at how many people would take a shuttle bus from a train station or given location if there was a bus shuttle? Even maybe look at subsidising at least part of a bus pass to relieve congestion in the car park?

Have a tow truck to remove offending vehicles at the owner's expense. Repeat offenders should be publicly flogged!

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