We we going to see larger parking spaces?
Discussion
With pretty much every single car getting bigger these days I am seeing more and more cars double parking, however it usually isn't their choice!
There are some car parks in and around Birmingham that my sheddy 3 series finds a tight squeeze never mind people who drive newer fat cars.
When I do see a large car parked normally, something like a range rover for example, the space what I need to try and get out of is so small that it becomes useless if I needed to walk around to my boot with something I bought (assuming I'd reverse in).
I am sure I read on here the other day that someone mentioned 'premium' parking spaces which are a bit wider but of course you pay for them.
Good idea.
There are some car parks in and around Birmingham that my sheddy 3 series finds a tight squeeze never mind people who drive newer fat cars.
When I do see a large car parked normally, something like a range rover for example, the space what I need to try and get out of is so small that it becomes useless if I needed to walk around to my boot with something I bought (assuming I'd reverse in).
I am sure I read on here the other day that someone mentioned 'premium' parking spaces which are a bit wider but of course you pay for them.
Good idea.
- Edit, title should say when will we see not we we lol
I'd happily pay double and have a spot twice the width.
Only place I've ever been with decent standard spots is Costco.
New Sainsbury's get double lines too, I think the space between the lines may even be slightly more narrow but the width between make the actual gap the same as normal, I think it encourages people to park central to the spot. Seems to work.
Only place I've ever been with decent standard spots is Costco.
New Sainsbury's get double lines too, I think the space between the lines may even be slightly more narrow but the width between make the actual gap the same as normal, I think it encourages people to park central to the spot. Seems to work.
I had an argument with the rating office about commercial rates, when they told me how many parking spaces we had in a car park, I parked a few largish cars in a line with reasonable space between (we had no lines on the ground due to being a listed building) and my calculation was almost half theirs, when they came along to look they agreed. It turned out they were using dimensions unchanged since the seventies
GravelMachineGun said:
Rangeroverover said:
It turned out they were using dimensions unchanged since the seventies
That is part of the problem. 
Until the regulations change to reflect the change in size of vehicles regarding minimum size of space, nothing will change.
However, anyone that expects those regulations to be changed at anytime in the future is living in cloud cuckoo land as it just isn't going to happen because of the knock-on effect with other regulations and the lack of available space we have in our cramped little island.
There is no single approved space size. There are CoP on a size range. I worked in a factory once that had to pack X spaces in a car park in order to get planning permission for a factory extension employing more staff. The engineers found a CoP with a size that was just about big enough to cram an Austin A30 in, if you were careful. Job done, they got the numbers. Only snag was anything bigger than an Escort needed to have its sides greased and be slid in, leaving the owner to climb out of the sunroof.
sjg said:
Why should spaces get bigger? Why can't people buy smaller cars again?
It's more about why do manufactures keep building bigger cars?Is the interior space in a Mk4 Escort really significantly any bigger than a current Focus.......?
I'd say not in relation to the significant increase in external dimensions, given the two cars are effectively the equivalent of each other.
I'd venture that mostly due to legislation, in particular safety regs.
TWPC said:
Ozzie Osmond said:
It sounds as though some people on here would buy a house by the railway line and then complain about the noise of the trains!!
Buy a car which fits the world around you. Don't buy a huge truck and then start complaining!
+1Buy a car which fits the world around you. Don't buy a huge truck and then start complaining!
I'd rather have an A8 over an A1 even if an A1 is easier to park.
GravelMachineGun said:
TWPC said:
Ozzie Osmond said:
It sounds as though some people on here would buy a house by the railway line and then complain about the noise of the trains!!
Buy a car which fits the world around you. Don't buy a huge truck and then start complaining!
+1Buy a car which fits the world around you. Don't buy a huge truck and then start complaining!
I'd rather have an A8 over an A1 even if an A1 is easier to park.
If you want a car with more space and are having trouble parking, get a Citroen Picasso that is 77% of the length of an A8.
Life is all about choices.
GravelMachineGun said:
What if I wanted a range rover?
Park it on the verge, closest most of them will get to off roading...... ooooohhh I jest.Spaces are spaces. Double parking is a bit precious I think, I was in one in Coventry and I had a problem getting my car in the slot. Then there are the spaces in the multi story in my home town that are massive, I think they have had to limit the number of cars for structural reasons so there are a few extra feet all around.
But if someone buys a large car then it should be accepted as part of the territory.
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