Originally Posted By danyoung >I love how ya'll keep calling a parkade a parking structure, I guess you guys and gals just like the sound of extra silly-bles< Why is it a parkade instead of a parking structure? I've never heard the word parkade before, so I'm looking to learn here.
Originally Posted By danyoung Actually I just looked up "parkade" on dictionary.com. It appears to be a Canadian term. So really, why would we apply that term to our parking structure?
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I'm always a little thrown off by the random conventions and things that cause the parking structure (parking garage, parking deck, parkade, big building with all the cars in it, etc) to fill up. I realize that it means that there are extra people in the area, but I don't think most people would go there to park, if they were going to spend their time in the convention center or elsewhere. It's relatively convenient if you'll be in the parks, but if you're pretty much anywhere else, it's one heck of a walk, even from the tram stop. To my knowledge, there aren't usually day guests who park at the convention center (except in extreme cases), so I don't get why the parking structure fills up like that. Where do all the extra cars usually go on days like that, since apparently it wasn't very crowded in the parks? Clearly there is capacity for more people, but I just don't know where they all go...
Originally Posted By avro_imagineer Garden Walk, ferret For the same reason your local Albertsons has a car park danyoung. Again though to be different just to be different, miles are so much more practical then kilometres. Even England agrees with you on that one.
Originally Posted By avro_imagineer I'd call it big black sea, but that would just be me. See for me using Parking Garage, would indicate underground. Parking Structure would just be like speaking French. Using more letters then required to say something. Ie. Pomme de Terre, for potato, garcon for boy.
Originally Posted By danyoung Seems like you're overthinking it, avro. All the big signs call it a parking structure, so I'll call it a parking structure. If you tell me to go to the parkade, I won't know what you're talking about. As to miles vs. kilometers, I wish we'd actually switched over back in the 80's - it would make life so much easier in the big wide world.
Originally Posted By avro_imagineer Metric makes easier for those who suck at math. *cough me*. Even within America there is differences in terminology. Isn't English great? Sometimes being different for different sake doesn't make sense. Ie. Why can't Toyota give me cruise control buttons on the wheel instead of the stalk that may have snapped off?
Originally Posted By oc_dean >>Garden Walk, ferret << And there's PLENTY of parking spaces to go around! It's something like 5 decks. It's the perfect "fill over" lot right now.
Originally Posted By oc_dean "Excuse me there sir, .. just take the lift to the left, to make your way out of the parkade. Tally-Ho !!"
Originally Posted By Westsider According to Wikipedia the term "Parkade" is used to refer to a parking structure in Canada, South Africa, and Northeast Pennsylvania. (I'm not making that up! Anyone here from Philadelphia who can confirm?) While those are all three perfectly lovely places on the globe, I don't think we could consider that as being "the rest of the world" when it comes to use of the word Parkade. And what does Parkade mean exactly? Is it a Parking Arcade? Can you play Ms. PacMan there? It just sounds odd. I watch BBC America sometimes and I've never heard the British use Parkade, although they do tend to use "Car Park" frequently, and I inferred that they were talking about a parking structure or underground garage. Just the other night on AbFab, Patsy said they were going to a rave in an "underground car park in Chelsea". I'm sure you don't get stares when you say Parkade when you are in Calgary, but Anaheim is not Calgary. Nor is it London or Paris or Northeast Pennsylvania.
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains <And what does Parkade mean exactly? Is it a Parking Arcade?>> Maybe bumper cars! =)
Originally Posted By avro_imagineer Well arcade would mean covered walkway in say Paris Disneyland. It's not like figuring out synonyms is hard. Whether I say truck or car, most people can determine what you mean. I'm pretty sure people may occasionally call margarine, butter. In this case they aren't the same. Interestingly enough when I'm in Southfield no one has problems understanding parkade. Besides I thought there was a noticeable amount of people in southern California who weren't born there. I guess melting pots simplify life. We can always just make sure the chad doesn't fall of and choose our elected officials according to Fox News or CNN. I can say street, when it's a road,lane,avenue,boulevard,parkway and most people could probably figure that out. I guess the moment you drive down a carriageway or highway you're lost. Must be marked Freeway. What's an Interstate?
Originally Posted By avro_imagineer Last time I checked Spokane was on the west coast of USA. <a href="http://www.spokanephotos.com/509/index.php?showimage=92" target="_blank">http://www.spokanephotos.com/5...image=92</a> as is Salem <a href="http://www.cityofsalem.net/Departments/UrbanDevelopment/RealEstateServices/CityManagedLeaseholds/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.cityofsalem.net/Dep...ult.aspx</a> I guess Philidelphia moved...
Originally Posted By Westsider avro_imagineer, you should go edit the Wiki page to include "two small cities in the Pacific Northwest" after it mentions Parkades in Northestern Pennsylvania. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parking" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parking</a>
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <and Northeast Pennsylvania. (I'm not making that up! Anyone here from Philadelphia who can confirm?)> Philly is Southeast PA. My dad and grandparents are from Philly, and I've been to Philly countless times and never heard the term "parkade." Perhaps if they'd come from Scranton...
Originally Posted By di-tard4life ohh yeah i was there that weekend.. i was there sat..and i saw the cheerleaders..there outfits were sooo cute!!
Originally Posted By trekkeruss <<I guess the moment you drive down a carriageway or highway you're lost.>> Some words are common usage and understood by just about everyone (in the States), others not so much. Parkade and carriageway fall in the not so much category. Highway *is* common usage; the word freeway is the one that throws some people for a loop.
Originally Posted By csgoofygirl "My friend just called me on his cell phone and let me know that he was on his way into the parking structure, and there were security officers turning cars away. He has an annual passport, so if the park was at full capacity they would still have to let him in. Did something happen at Disneyland or DCA today?" Well . . . it was my birthday. =0)
