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- From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Re: Cars, Cities and Choices
- Keywords: Cars Transit Cities
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.000219.9704@ke4zv.uucp>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 00:02:19 GMT
- References: <1992Jul28.172027.28257@ke4zv.uucp> <1992Jul28.204107.16302@s1.gov> <1992Jul29.144248.2912@ke4zv.uucp> <1992Jul29.222232.6070@s1.gov>
- Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
- Organization: Gannett Technologies Group
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- In article <1992Jul29.222232.6070@s1.gov> lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul29.144248.2912@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) writes:
- >>In article <1992Jul28.204107.16302@s1.gov> lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich) writes:
- >:: If you have to park far away, then you have to walk as long as
- >::you would in a shopping mall -- probably longer -- and almost
- >::certainly across a street or two.
- >
- >:Not around here anyway. Strip centers have proportionately as much parking
- >:lot space as enclosed malls with the advantage that the store doors open
- >:directly on the lot instead of having to go to a Mall entrance and then
- >:wend your way through a simulated downtown pedestrian way to the store
- >:you want to patronize.
- >
- > That would be a good objection _only_ if one was guaranteed
- >parking just in front of whatever store you wanted to shop in. C'mon,
- >Gary Coffman, what makes you so sure you won't have any competition?
-
- Queing theory. On any given day, my odds of finding a parking place
- in front of the store I wish to patronize is proportional to the number
- of other customers at the strip center who simulaneously want to shop
- at that store instead of another store in the center. At the Mall,
- *everyone* wants to park next to the Mall entrance regardless of which
- store they want to patronize. Therefore I'm almost always going to get
- a better parking place at the strip center.
-
- Gary
-