Parking in Bucharest

Look after your motor Mister?

by Craig Turp June 17, 2011 Bucharest

 It’s the fastest growing business in Bucharest: perhaps the only growing business in Romania. ‘Looking after’ people’s cars. Here’s how it works: You find yourself a street – the more central the better – on which there are no official paid parking spaces. (Since the city council got rid of most of the paid car [...]

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Badly Parked Vans

by Craig Turp April 18, 2011 Bucharest

 These photos – taken on Strada Paris and supplied via a source who wishes to remain anonymous – are magnificent. As the photographer explains: ‘what makes them so ridiculous is that the driver was working in the garden at the front, but had put the rear end of his van in such a place that [...]

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Badly parked cars No. 4,376

by Craig Turp March 11, 2011 Bucharest

  Photographed in Bucharest early this morning. We assume the car (it is the silver one which is parked) had been here – in the middle of the road – overnight.

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Romanian police in ‘doing their job’ shock

by Craig Turp June 23, 2010 Bucharest

 Incredible but true. This weekend we saw at least two Romanian policemen doing some real policing, enforcing the laws of land. These shocking events took place outside the Bucuresti Mall, where, as anyone who has driven past will know, taxi drivers routinely make a habit of parking by the traffic lights right outside, forcing two-lane [...]

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Badly Parked Cars: Why?

by Craig Turp October 25, 2009 Bucharest

 This one was submitted by a reader, Nicholas Wright, along with the accompanying text: This one begs the question: Why? You could have parked properly? But hey, this is Bucharest. There’s a photo on Wikipedia of Casa Scanteii in 1971 – one car out front – much better! But seriously, why are people driving here? [...]

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