Park life Passionate about parking As Valentines Day approaches, Kelvin Reynolds considers one of the ongoing modern-day loves of our lives: the motor car ove is in the air Everywhere I look around Love is in the air Every sight and every sound I expect John Paul Young was singing about the love of his life, which was presumably another person, but equally, could it have been about motor cars? It certainly seems that way to me as I walk some of the urban streets near where I live, but which could be anywhere in the country. Everywhere I look: row after row after row of kerb-lined parking, with scarcely a gap to manoeuvre, let alone park another car. These L are residential streets designed in Victorian or Edwardian times, with no concept of multiple car ownership. We do seem to have a love affair with the car. Why is this? And what are the consequences, not just for the parking sector but society as a whole? We know from the BPAs own research and anecdotal evidence that cars are typically parked 22 hours out of every 24. Occasionally, we use them! I started to wonder, what else do we purchase with no intention of using it for at least 90 per cent of its life? We buy food to eat, we 47