OT - The Pikes Peak of parking . . .

[Jerzy]

Doesn't this look like fun.

German concept for an 18 story parking garage -

[c.d.iesel]

see the published date? 1929 Big Depression Era -

people driving their cars out of buildings

Why not die sitting in your Duesy instead of

splattering yerself on the pavement?

[jimk]

Parked. European visitors too!

[JFT]

We found a place kind of like this - at least kind of like the entry, there on the left, the thing that spirals upward - in Geneva a couple of years ago. It's a public parking garage that is circular and a continual upward spiral. The garage is big enough so that there is a duel entry/exit lane from top to bottom and wedge-shaped parking spots on each side of each lane. Pretty cool idea.

Now I think of it, there is - or at least was, a few years back - another cool parking spot under St. Stephen's Catherdal in Vienna. To use this one, you drive in, leave your car. The attendants load your car onto a dolly and push the dolly into the parking - we'd call it storage - area, stacking one on top of another. The methodology was interesting enough, but that they managed to build it under one of Europe's most venerated cathedrals was especially interesting, I thought.

[dubois]

The wierdest parking facility I have ever parked any of my cars was in Strasbourg. When we took European delivery of our E39 we looked for hotels that had parking. We contacted the hotel and they said oui. When we arrived, we drove down to a basement, the 530 barely made the turns, and were instructed to drive in an elevator! It was a 10 car rotisery, where each car was parked in a floating floor. I could barely open the door to get out, the operator pushed the button and up it went!

[visionaut]

Ha! My workplace has 2 large fully-enclosed 6-story spiral roadway towers on each end [1 for up, 1 for down] to provide access to the building's rooftop parking lot. It's no 18-story, double-helical journey - but it can be a bit of a dizzying skid-pad like traverse at times. ;-)