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Motorcycle Parking (Valley Fair in Santa Clara/San Jose)

Also if you did this you better go inside and make some token purchase just to be buletproof.
 
My spidey sense is detecting a deep desire of OP to have easy designated parking next to the mall door all the time.

Fact of the matter is Valley Fair is busy as hell and most of the time you have to park in the boonies regardless of what vehicle you're using.
 
I find that having a motorcycle i can park wherever I want. So find a door and park by it. I never get a ticket warning unless I park in red or a no parking zone. If your bikes nice shops love for you to park right near the door
 
carbonkid said:
I find that having a motorcycle i can park wherever I want. So find a door and park by it. I never get a ticket warning unless I park in red or a no parking zone. If your bikes nice shops love for you to park right near the door
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Can I borrow your nice bike? :p
 
reidconti said:
Actually you should cut that $1000/spot figure in two if you figure that you can at least make 2 motorcycle spots per car spot, so you'd only have to carry $500 in stuff on your moto.

That said, it's probably more like $40 per spot than $1000. I've been going there for years and can only once remember spending a decent amount of money, it was ~$300. Every other time was between $0 and $50, usually $0.

I honestly don't think the math would show that a motorcycle shopper would spend as little as 1/2 as much as a car shopper.
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Point missed.:|
That's $1000 per spot per day, not per customer. I'm sure you don't park there for 10 hours
 
VTRZA said:
I think the best way to approach this is to let them know that having motorcycle parking can free up lots of space for cars by not having each bike take up a spot
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Organize something @ 9am on a Saturday.

100 bikes show up and take the 100 closest parking places, and the real consumers complain, not a bunch of riled up MC wackos from a very small demographic.
 
budbandit said:
However, I have never been hassled about parking in a normal spot ever.
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I've never been hassled by anyone official, but I've never been to Valley Fair either. I have however been hassled by random people around the holidays..stuff to the effect of "you shouldn't be parking that thing here" :wtf
 
reidconti said:
Actually you should cut that $1000/spot figure in two if you figure that you can at least make 2 motorcycle spots per car spot, so you'd only have to carry $500 in stuff on your moto.

That said, it's probably more like $40 per spot than $1000. I've been going there for years and can only once remember spending a decent amount of money, it was ~$300. Every other time was between $0 and $50, usually $0.

I honestly don't think the math would show that a motorcycle shopper would spend as little as 1/2 as much as a car shopper.
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Maybe we'd spend more if the moto parking was next to Kay's Jewelers.
 
lunerkid said:
Organize a day for lots of motorcycles to go Valley Fair on a busy weekend during the summer.

Each moto would take up one regular parking space. Do that for maybe a week with lots of participants and I'm sure they would throw in moto specific parking in no time.

:teeth

Imagine if this was done during the last week before Christmas.
All management would be up in arms and moto parking would be made within the week :p.
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I'd be in if you can get a crapload of people in on this.

I remember there was talk about doing this in either SF or Oakland after a bunch of bikes got ticketed for sharing the same metered spot (basically taking all the metered spots early in the morning with 1 bike per spot before anyone gets there, and then rotating new bikes in and out to satisfy the 2hr limit).
 
VTRZA said:
I think the best way to approach this is to let them know that having motorcycle parking can free up lots of space for cars by not having each bike take up a spot
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lunerkid said:
Organize a day for lots of motorcycles to go Valley Fair on a busy weekend during the summer.

Each moto would take up one regular parking space. Do that for maybe a week with lots of participants and I'm sure they would throw in moto specific parking in no time.

:teeth

Imagine if this was done during the last week before Christmas.
All management would be up in arms and moto parking would be made within the week :p.
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pick weekend day and I'm there!
 
lunerkid said:
Is it required for motos to park in designated motos?
I was always under the impression that we can park in any parking space and that moto parking was suppose to be there for convenience and not take up a full parking.


Ie. At SJSU, we can park in the moto parking, but if we really wanted to, we can park in the metered parking so long we pay the meter??
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If you really want to set up a mass moto parking day then I'll probably come too. Just don't say I didn't warn you. I currently don't have any problems parking right by the door at valley fair. I do it maybe once a week, but that may change if we go stirring up shit. It's private property so I think they can make you park wherever they want. They'd just have to put up some signs.

From an administrator's point of view that might be the easiest solution.
 
I'm all for civil disobediance, once forced into action by evil.....
 
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VF has what.. a dozen entrances? We'd need enough people to occupy a good amount of spaces at each entrance to get people to really notice.. Just a thought :dunno
 
so i sent them an email and this is what they said...

so anybody want to come with me and figure out a solution with them?

Hello Tri,

Thank you for contacting Westfield Valley Fair with your concerns about
there not being adequate parking stalls for motorcyclists. In our
opinion, this is an easy fix.

At your convenience, I would like to invite you back to our mall, where
you and I would have the opportunity to drive the property and discuss
possible locations for additional motorcycle parking. I can be reached
at the phone number listed below.

All best,

Dino

Dino Piscione / Assistant General Manager / Westfield Valley Fair
2855 Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite 2178 / Santa Clara, CA 95050
T 408.248.4450 / F 408.248.8614 / dpiscione@westfield.com
 
triXr750 said:
so i sent them an email and this is what they said...

so anybody want to come with me and figure out a solution with them?

Hello Tri,

Thank you for contacting Westfield Valley Fair with your concerns about
there not being adequate parking stalls for motorcyclists. In our
opinion, this is an easy fix.

At your convenience, I would like to invite you back to our mall, where
you and I would have the opportunity to drive the property and discuss
possible locations for additional motorcycle parking. I can be reached
at the phone number listed below.

All best,

Dino

Dino Piscione / Assistant General Manager / Westfield Valley Fair
2855 Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite 2178 / Santa Clara, CA 95050
T 408.248.4450 / F 408.248.8614 / dpiscione@westfield.com
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WIN
 
alright guys! I have an appointment at 2pm with Dino today to drive the property and figure out the best location for the parking spaces. I know i will have some good ideas but it would be great if a few of you guys can come with and figure it out and make this work.

anyone free by 2pm????

i will be there at 2 so if you guys come, shoot me a text to meet up. 4086282382.
 
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