Solons want free parking in malls, schools and hospitals

**chookchakchenes** · July 24th, 2014 09:39 PM

Ito win-win situation

Ang first hour or two hour dapat may bilhin para free parking. Pero pag lumagpas ka na jan eh may bayaran na pero discounted. Pero sa magtagal nag parking pero walang binili eh kailangan magbayad regular price.

Sa situation na yan eh walang tambay parking mangyayari.

**robot.sonic** · July 24th, 2014 10:09 PM

Nakakadiscourage din pumunta sa mga kainan na may parking fee.

Madalas ako dati sa el pueblo para kumain ng korean food. Biglang nagkaroon ng bayad sa parking. Nilalangaw na tuloy el pueblo ngayon. Halos wala ng kumakain sa song do.

Ok na yung free parking for 2 hours pag may resibo.

**uls** · July 24th, 2014 10:58 PM

pag pinilit ng gobyerno gawin libre ang parking mall owners will find a way to recover losses

those people do not lose

**uls** · July 24th, 2014 11:10 PM

Originally Posted by robot.sonic

Nakakadiscourage din pumunta sa mga kainan na may parking fee.

Madalas ako dati sa el pueblo para kumain ng korean food. Biglang nagkaroon ng bayad sa parking. Nilalangaw na tuloy el pueblo ngayon. Halos wala ng kumakain sa song do.

Ok na yung free parking for 2 hours pag may resibo.

kung hindi ka siga at naningil ka ng parking mawawalan ka ng customer (sasabihin ng customer eff-you i can go somewhere else)

pag siga ka pwede ka maninigil ng parking gusto talaga ng customer pumunta sayo kahit napakamahal ng parking mo

**tidus1203** · July 24th, 2014 11:14 PM

Yep so tataas renta ng mga tenants and in effect pasa din nila sa consumer...

There is no free lunch people! Maintaining a parking lot costs MONEY!!!

**uls** · July 24th, 2014 11:29 PM

Originally Posted by tidus1203

Yep so tataas renta ng mga tenants and in effect pasa din nila sa consumer...

There is no free lunch people! Maintaining a parking lot costs MONEY!!!

yeah

kahit ano gawin ng gobyerno capitalists will adapt

govt made it costly to maintain regular employees capitalists hire for only 6 months

govt impose price control capitalists let stock run out

govt makes it too costly to do business capitalists invest somewhere else and govt loses tax revenue

**userfriendly** · July 24th, 2014 11:35 PM

Originally Posted by zoomzoom

Last I heard, hindi pa naman batas ang "every square meter of land has to earn money".

Pero pwedeng pwede naman gumawa ng batas ang gobyerno (kung wala pa) na pag magtatayo ka ng mall, condo, office bldg, school or any commercial establishment, kelangan may kasamang parking area yan tintayo mo, at obviously mag cause ng trapik yan once matayo na. No parking area, no building permit, no ifs, no buts.

The law is there sometimes to control people's greed. Kung puro greed paiiralin natin, WWIII na tayo matagal na. Just my opinion.

Actually there is a rule that is being implemented by the local city engineering of each city, that requires parking space for new buildings. There is a ratio they follow. I heard in qc that they require 1 parking space for every 4 or 8 (I forgot which but it's one or the other) condo units.

I was offered a condo unit. I asked the agent how much for parking. Their parking space is more expensive than their studio unit. wow, just wow.

In a certain city, the city engineering office wanted me to provide 30 parking spaces for my store. Crazy! I am only renting the land and building. Good thing the land is a lot bigger than the building so I did not have to contest the rule. In my 5 years there, I've only seen a max of 4 cars parked in my store at any given time, plus my 3 delivery trucks. And one of the parked car is my car. So only 3 cars belong to customers at any given time. If I can fill the 30 slots they wanted with customer cars, I would be very happy!

Btw, for those who don't know, a standard parking space measures 12.5 Sqm.

**niky** · July 25th, 2014 02:08 AM

Thirty spaces? That's madness. Unless your store is a full-sized supermarket, you will never use all thirty.

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I feel sad every time a place that previously had free parking starts to charge, but that's business.

Free parking makes sense not only as an incentive to customers, but to ensure that customers can actually shop at your store (if there is no parking lot nearby for them to park, you will have no customers. Charging for parking makes sense when the freeloaders start abusing your store as a place to park their car when they're going to their office next door or down the street.

I once had a trip where I dropped off my car at Alabang, taking advantage of free parking, carpooled to Manlia, then went back for my car before the grocery closed.

In the end... kahit may minimum minimum purchase diyan, either the lot owner still loses, or they simply jack up the prices of their items to cover their losses.

In the meantime, though... all my groceries... South Supermarket Alabang. Unlimited free parking. Grocery isn't crowded (although the parking lot is always full) and their stuff is nicer than everyone else's. S&R has some imported stuff South Super doesn't, but South Super is more complete.

**_Cathy_** · July 25th, 2014 12:34 PM

I wonder why they can't require office buildings to have X amount of parking space?

I used to work in Ortigas in 2004 and I paid P90 flat rate in our building. I never had a hard time finding parking space, in fact I have a slot that I always use (beside a poste and across the elevator). In Makati it's P130 flat rate in 2009 in our building and parking was not difficult as well.

Currently, BGC is the worst in parking! I think it overtook Greenhills already. My friends avoid going to BGC on a weekday, I experienced the worst lining up for a parking slot for 1.5 hrs. Almost all parking spaces are occupied by office workers kasi.