Stockton Digital Village » castlegate carpark http://gdy.org.uk A Community Media Network Sat, 09 Jan 2010 09:29:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Castlegate Long Stay Carpark Isn’t Falling Down, Honest! http://gdy.org.uk/castlegate-long-stay-carpark-isnt-falling-down-honest/ http://gdy.org.uk/castlegate-long-stay-carpark-isnt-falling-down-honest/#comments Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:49:59 +0000 lightstonemeadow http://gdy.org.uk/?p=32 A month or so ago I drove into the Castlegate multistory longstay carpark on an utterly splendid monday morning to find that over half of the spaces had been fenced off.  Some happy-go-lucky workman was cheerfully sanding down one of the pillars on the ground floor level.  He looked like he was having the [...]]]> A month or so ago I drove into the Castlegate multistory longstay carpark on an utterly splendid monday morning to find that over half of the spaces had been fenced off.  Some happy-go-lucky workman was cheerfully sanding down one of the pillars on the ground floor level.  He looked like he was having the time of his life but the severely reduced number of available parking spaces meant that by just before 10 am (I sometimes get to start work at 10 am – go me!) there were no spaces left!  Drat, blast, damn etc.  As a result I had to park outside Halfords, a whole 100 metres more to walk in order to get to work!

Over the next few weeks the carpark remained only half open as cheerful workmen systematically sanded down each pillar in turn, adding concrete boxing to the top where the pillar reaches the ceiling.  The implication being that there was some reinforcement to the structure going on.  Makes you wonder whether before hand the whole carpark could have collapsed at any time!

While I’m on the subject of the carpark, everytime I park there I feel extremely smug, looking at all the paint scraping marks on the walls and the pillars from the unfortunate drivers of huge gas-guzzling urban-tractors trying to drive through a structure that was never designed to cope with pointlessly huge road vehicles.  I drive a Smart car.  Ha!

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