Didn't they have had signs showing detours and ways around?
Or did they block off the only way in or out of a parking area?
Which would be kind of dangerous.
I don’t know the area...............
There used to be a shared parking situation in Eugene, OR. It worked out pretty well, from 9-5...my favorite fly-fishing shop was in there, and I went frequently. One of the businesses sharing the lot was Alberto Salazaar’s restaurant, The Electric Station. They got a pretty big night crowd, and he could be pretty autocratic, roping things off with cables. One time, a future girlfriend of mine came bombing up her driveway, a 55 gallon drum bouncing around in the bed of her truck. She got out, and tossed the barrel out. Everyone’s looking at her, asking “What’s up?” She told us The Electric Station locked the barrel to her truck because she’d gotten held up at some business ‘til after 5, so she axed the cable, and took their barrel.
“Or did they block off the only way in or out of a parking area?
Which would be kind of dangerous.”
I was working on 42nd street NYC on New Years Eve. I stayed until about 4pm. When I got to my parking garage, there were about 10 cars trying to get out but every street was blocked (I was at 8th Ave and 47th). The manager of the garage got a cop to temporarily open all the barriers so we could get out. It is common sense to have a way to temporarily, and safely, allow people to, for example, get out of their home or garage and get where they need to go, like a doctor’s appointment, surgery, emergency, and lots of other things like getting food and going to work. Public event planning can’t put people in a prison. The cop should have “facilitated” her exit. Just standing there saying “no M’am”is BS.