Today I offer up a study in parking. It's not like I had to scour the city all day looking for these examples. I passed all of these during my 10 minute walk to the bus stop. It looks like there are several schools of thought when it comes to parking. Here we have the tiny Smart car owners perpendicular arrangement. It works, right? And I believe, since these cars were designed for small European streets and parking spaces, it's a legal and acceptable form of parking but it's still funny to see.
Then there are the sidewalk parkers: never legal but I respect their panache. But within this group there are three sub groups: #1: two wheels on the sidewalk:
#2: Entire car on the sidewalk (gets lots of points for moxie):
And #3: the timid sidewalk parkers who just get one wheel on the sidewalk. I think they need to be more committed and get at least two wheels up there.
There is also a hybrid breed of parkers: the crosswalk/corner parkers. I can see their point of view, I mean crosswalks and corners are just wasted space and should be better utilized.
If you are a corner/crosswalk parker you have lots of options. You can park parallel or perpendicular to the crosswalk or you can park directly on the corner and lop off a bit of two crosswalks in the process. Just depends on your particular preference I guess.
The display at the BMW Mini shop:
2 comments:
Can you imagine what things would be like if WE started parking like that?
What creative parking! I don't think I wouldn't be surprised to see some Memphians park their cars like this, if they had tiny smart cars.
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