We we going to see larger parking spaces?

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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.

• Edit, title should say when will we see not we we lol

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richardgcs said:

We already have wider spaces ,theyre called Parent and Child,plenty of room in them !!!

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Rangeroverover said:

It turned out they were using dimensions unchanged since the seventies

That is part of the problem. A lot of these car parks aren't new and they just keep re-painting the same old size lines on the floor.

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sjg said:

Why should spaces get bigger? Why can't people buy smaller cars again? Why should every public car park be able to accommodate a row of 2m wide, 5m long oversized cars?

What if I wanted a range rover?

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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!

+1

Surely it is nicer to have more room in your car?
I'd rather have an A8 over an A1 even if an A1 is easier to park.

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battered said:

I sympathise. I didn't sympathise with the fat ba*d who backed into a space next to me at Warwick Services and then biffed his door into mine while he levered his fat aris out of his *new* Insignia. I was sitting in the car drinking tea at the time and talking on the phone. I was all set to go out and have a row but a 12yo Mondeo with a dent on every panel is no big deal. If he doesn't give a sh*t about his own(/company), new, car, then he's hardly likely to give a sh*t about my ols shed.

This is why I quite like the Cactus!

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TWPC said:

sjg said:

GravelMachineGun said:

What if I wanted a range rover?

What if I wanted a Unimog?

I want a tank.

http://swns.com/news/military-nut-infuriates-neigh...

Do a google streetview tour of the road in that article. What a fking horrible council sthole. Scrap Transits on trailers dumped on the pavement, Escort vans, cars with tarps over them, some Merc "camper" van, a tank would be the best looking and most valuable thing in the area.

It looks like something you'd see up North, and I thought Oxford was meant to be a desirable place to live...

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Europa1 said:

philmots said:

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.

Yes, you'd think so, wouldn't you? But here in Cambridge we have a special breed of f$%^tard....









And the absolute, world class, gold plated cocksocket...

Aah, Sainsburys on Coldham's Lane. The Mos Eisley of Cambridge. And yes, people can never park there.