New double parking system coming to North Vancouver
Posted February 27, 2013 8:10 pm.
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NORTH VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – A new mechanic double parking system created by an Australian company is coming to North Vancouver.
A commercial building on East 1st Street in Lower Lonsdale will be redeveloped with more parking spaces but those spots will look a little different.
There are similar mechanisms around Metro Vancouver, but this particular type will be the first in North America.
Architect Kent Halex is bringing in a 2Park system which takes your car, lifts it up on top of another car in 60 seconds.
“You drive it onto it and then you just get out of it and then there’s a hard-wired fob, that the driver of the car uses to raise the car into it’s berth position.” outlines Halex. The lifting platform rotates and saves the need of maneuvering and always faced the traffic direction.
To retrieve your car, the push of a button on the fob brings it back down.
The process to bring the car down takes a little longer, about five minutes but as he says, “it’s better than walking two blocks.”
If the plans for redevelopment of the industrial building are approved by city council, construction could start in about a year.
Even with a price tag of more than $30,000, Halex wouldn’t be surprised if more of them start to pop up.
“They’re not cheap but then no alternatives for parking are cheap. Building parking that the taxpayer would have otherwise been on the hook for in order to get projects like this to happen is not cheap… I think in circumstances that demand it. Systems like this can be proposed,” argues Halex.
