On Fri, 30 May 2008 21:08:51 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 20:59:23 on
Fri, 30 May 2008, The Natural Philosopher remarked:
They manage ti ge the ticket machines into car parks all over the
place without any trouble,
Yes, one or two near the lifts, not a pole at every parking space.

I think you will find a lot of pillars.

Very few of which have ticket machines next to them.

Typically pillars are at the end of rows of spaces, and even then the
socket is going to be on the wrong side 50% of the time.

Drilling small holes in concrete isn't particularly expensive.