Angled/diagonal parking spaces

Mint Sauce

So Wine Street Car in Sligo has finally been resurfaced, if you are not familiar with it, it was a horrible place to park, spaces very tight, huge concrete blocks under the lighting, and a surface of the moon surface, that left your whole upper body vibrating, when trying to push a shopping trolley over it.

But it seems I will still be avoiding it, as all the new spaces are now Drive in Angled/Diagonal Parking Spaces. Great for driving into, more space around your car, but still (i find) difficult driving out of, trying to reverse out, and see around the parked cars, to see if anything coming.

Any other reason for them, other than getting more spaces in a car park, and easier to drive into, and other others still prefer to reverse into Perpendicular/side by side spaces, for an easier exit.

Henry Ford III

Why not just reverse into the space?

Mint Sauce

Henry Ford III wrote: »

Why not just reverse into the space?

Driving area between spaces is one way, and narrower, than the previous set up, a reverse in would be at an over 90 degree angle.

HeidiHeidi

I don't know the area you're referring to, but diagonal parking in general tends to be neater than vertical parking.


Reversing into vertical spaces is fine, but lots don't want to do that (beats me why not, but that's an argument for a different day) and wind up abandoned across two spaces at an angle because they can't be bothered doing the 20-point turn necessary to straighten their car up properly.


So more efficient use of spaces would be my guess.

seagull

Henry Ford III wrote: »

Why not just reverse into the space?

You can't reverse into angled spaces very easily. Not unless you're doing it from the wrong direction.

Del2005

Henry Ford III wrote: »

Why not just reverse into the space?

Tried it once and its a pain to get facing the correct way when you pull out. As with the OP I always reverse park in normal car parks, but diagonal ones you have to drive into.

quietsailor

Can you put up a photo, this sounds nothing like any diagonal parking spaces I've seen.

The ones I've seen you pass them in the one way system then reverse in and drive out. Its less of an angle than parking in a normally space!

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Mint Sauce

quietsailor wrote: »

Can you put up a photo, this sounds nothing like any diagonal parking spaces I've seen.

The ones I've seen you pass them in the one way system then reverse in and drive out. Its less of an angle than parking in a normally space!

The ones you seen, I imagine would have a 60 degree(ish) reverse turn. These spaces are facing the oposite angle, so driving straight in is a lot easier, compared to an 120 degree reverse.

Entry into these spaces, is something like this...

http://www.traffic-inside.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Parking_Diagonal-Both_535.jpg

Ones you seen, are probably like this...

http://media.mlive.com/news_impact/photo/reverse-angle-parking-239fa1cf33703100.jpg

seagull

I've only ever seen parking spaces that are angled away from the direction of traffic like in the first link there, so that you drive forwards into them. I presume that's so that you won't be blocking traffic when you want to drive into a park.

Mint Sauce

seagull wrote: »

I've only ever seen parking spaces that are angled away from the direction of traffic like in the first link there, so that you drive forwards into them. I presume that's so that you won't be blocking traffic when you want to drive into a park.

I have only ever seen drive in ones here as well, never seen reverse in ones. Not in Sligo anyway.