Has anyone ever designed a car park with NO lines?

[CoolHands]

I mean a big company like IKEA etc. I think they should try it. I bet it hasn't been done for decades - we're so conditioned to expect white lines, and I imagine designers and architects so sure they're required, that no-ones ever stopped to try the opposite.

Just one big fk-off bit of tarmac. Lets us at it!

[TheEnd]

Can you design something without a design?

Anyway, it'd be chaos. Do you think people would automatically park the most efficient way?

[davepoth]

You could do it if you had people directing the parkers, like they do at festivals and the like.

[Buff Mchugelarge]

It would be chaos!

Cars parked on top of each other, abandoned in the middle of no where, fights, fires etc.

Many millions are spent in planning car parks to be 'efficient'. The general public act, as a rule, as they're told. Most of the the time they don't even know they're being directed.

[NightRunner]

It would be a good experiment.

Have no white lines at all.

Watch from a rooftop.

[CoolHands]

^ yeah it'd be great to see a day on a time-lapse camera looking down from above!

We need to bring back 'Beadles About' and film it.

[carl_w]

On the assumption that people park so as to *not* block other people in, I reckon it could work.

[Liquid Knight]

To avoid paying council tax the carpark at work is designated as "wasteland" on the map and it looked like a charlie full of cars had flown over with the back doors open. Now someone had been round with a few spray cans it's a lot more organised.

[Deva Link]

I wish we had the herringbone pattern carpark markings that are common in the US - OK, you lose a couple of spaces (although the rows could be positioned closer together) but they work so much better.

[greendiff]

we have no lines in the car park at work. the amount of moronic parking is unbelievable. i mean, you would not believe it, it really is a free for all at times, people have to find people to move their car so they can get out!

[andym1603]

You only have to look into your local supermarket carpark after a covering of snow. It is carnage with
cars parked where drivers think they should be. It doesn't work.

[northandy]

greendiff said:

we have no lines in the car park at work. the amount of moronic parking is unbelievable. i mean, you would not believe it, it really is a free for all at times, people have to find people to move their car so they can get out!

Tobe fair where i work we have marked bays but you still get blocked in.

[BonzoG]

Deva Link said:

I wish we had the herringbone pattern carpark markings that are common in the US

You mean the diagonals that are a royal pain-in-the-arse to reverse into?

[jmorgan]

Drivers as a group are stupid. You would end up with something akin to a massive Jenga after the collapse.

[jbi]

car parks are a bloody disgrace in this country.

tiny, narrow bays at 90 degree angles to the road.

Either copy a proper standard like the yanks use, or don't bother.

We have no lines at my daughters school, yet everyone seems to manage just fine with room to get out and no door dings

[jbi]

BonzoG said:

You mean the diagonals that are a royal pain-in-the-arse to reverse into?

you drive in nose first and reverse back out again

[BonzoG]

jbi said:

BonzoG said:

You mean the diagonals that are a royal pain-in-the-arse to reverse into?

you drive in nose first and reverse back out again

That's my point - reversing out is needlessly difficult compared to reversing in to a space. In something with limited visiblity (van/people carrier/anything modern and curvy) it's borderline dangerous.

So why force people to do it? In any 'herringbone' car parks I've seen over here, the angle is never enough to give a decent view backwards with cars either side of you. Just asking to back out in front of/over someone.

[carl_w]

BonzoG said:

That's my point - reversing out is needlessly difficult compared to reversing in to a space. In something with limited visiblity (van/people carrier/anything modern and curvy) it's borderline dangerous.

So why force people to do it?

You could herringbone them the other way and force people to reverse in?

[Deva Link]

jbi said:

BonzoG said:

You mean the diagonals that are a royal pain-in-the-arse to reverse into?

you drive in nose first and reverse back out again

In some States in the US it's illegal to reverse park!

I've never understood reverse parking in shopping car parks - it just makes it a pain to get to the boot. Unless you've got a Porsche, I suppose.

[BonzoG]

carl_w said:

You could herringbone them the other way and force people to reverse in?

You could, but they don't! Not in East Kilbride anyways.