That Impala belongs to me. I parked it there.

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In Lansing, Michigan, on January 8th, 2022, on the west side of North Foster Avenue, north of East Michigan Avenue.

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I improved the view of the city by positioning my silver 2006 Infiniti QX56 near the center of it.

At foreground are the donuts I did in the intersection the night before, in my silver 2006 Infiniti QX56.

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In downtown Danville, Virginia, on May 31st, 2022, a view from the northwest corner of Lynn Street and Wilson Street, in the Danville Tobacco Warehouse and Residential District (82004552 on the National Register of Historic Places).

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Julia has a parallel parking gift. Seriously.

Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.

Street parking car stuck in Berlins snow piles.

I thought I'd parked in some tight spots before, but this one still has me shaking my head. I have *NO* idea how I got in there. I'm an engineer, and I'd tell you without hesitation that this was impossible, if I hadn't done it myself. The worst part was that at the end of the day the other two cars were still there, and I had to get back out!

The work of a kind stranger, high teenagers, a marketing team, or supportive mom?

Washington Height, Manhattan

This is a photo of the town where I live. It's teeny tiny, but I love it.

You've probably heard many comparisons between New York and Chicago. The truth is, though, they are nothing alike. If you disregard the climate, vibrant downtown, and the shoreline presence, Chicago resembles Los Angeles a lot more than it does New York. And when you factor in the suburbs, Chicago is even more like Los Angeles and less like New York. (Perhaps most importantly for me, Chicago and Los Angeles are places in which I could see myself living; on the other hand, I would never want to live in New York.)

Is it practical to own a car in New York? No, not at all. What about in Chicago? Yes, very much so. And perhaps that's why the majority of city residents still drive to work and why the percentage of those who do is still 2.5 times greater than that of residents who take public transit (the CTA buses and 'L' trains). The thing is, it's very easy to drive around town, even in the Loop. And throughout the city, the roads are in a grid system, making navigation simple. You can also find free parking downtown, a fact which may surprise a lot of people. I can testify to that, however, as I parallel-parked for free on E Chestnut St near the John Hancock Tower. No meters or parking boxes anywhere in sight; no tickets.

This view here depicts street parking along E Huron St on Chicago's Near North Side. The particular spots shown here are metered, but go a couple streets north and all the meters disappear.

Somebody didn't hook up the plastic windows... oops.

Noen bedre?

English:

The challenge: Parallel parking! Any better?

A picture of bad parking @ the Virginia Beach Town Center.

Street parking car stuck in Berlins snow piles.

It's not an unusual occurrence & the same thing happens every year so I'm not sure why I even noticed it. Plus there are pictures of this kind of thing all over the internet already & nobody really needs another one!

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In south Minneapolis on October 10th, 2009, on the south side of East 25th Street, west of 1st Avenue South.

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Library of Congress classification ideas:

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GB2615 Snow—United States—Pictorial works.

TL215.V65 Volvo automobile—Pictorial works.

F614.M543 Minneapolis (Minn.)—Pictorial works.

City of Santa Cruz considering converting all of Pacific Avenue to southbound only, and add a northbound bike lane from Cathcart to Church.

These show view looking north on Pacific. Parallel parking on east side of Pacific will be retained. City plans have drivers crossing against the flow of bike traffic to park on east side of street. What if we put street parking to the left of cyclists, so that (a) drivers don't have to cross the bike lane to park and (b) the parking buffers that bike lane?

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One of my earliest recollections of childhood is the Spider-Man animated series from the sixties; specifically, the opening titles. Whenever Spider-Man would swing down on his web straight into the tv screen, his face eventually filling the frame, I would have to hide behind the sofachair. I wasn't afraid of Spider-man himself, mind you—I was just too young to reconcile the two-dimensional input against its four-dimensional implications. And he was coming right at me! Of course, I pretty much got over it a year later when I got my driver's permit and had to learn to parallel park.

Long story short: if you swing down on a web straight at me, it will really freak me out. Please don't do it. Also, don't ask me to parallel park; that also freaks me out a little.

Per Wikipedia, Parallel parking "is a method of parking a vehicle in line with other parked cars. Cars parked in parallel are in one line, parallel to the curb, with the front bumper of each car facing the back bumper of the adjacent one. Parallel parking requires initially driving the car in reverse gear into the parking space." Unfortunately for this young man, his father was playing the part of other parked cars and he wasn't quite 'adjacent' to the curb.

As the father of a 16 year old, this hit a little too close to home...

Saturday afternoon Flickr photo stroll. Visiting downtown Buford, Georgia.

Walking down Columbia Heights to the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory by the Brooklyn Bridge

2009 07 28 - Used on We Love DC

Apparel of Deconstruction near the corner of 龍泉街 (Lóngquán Jiē) and 泰順街 (Tàishùn Jiē) in Táipěi

Looking down Mason Street on San Francisco's Nob Hill.

Taken in 2008.

I always wonder why owners who can afford luxury or gas-guzzling vehicles don't spend the extra money on driving/parking lessons.

One of my better displays of the art of parallel parking. Bonus points for the fact that it was in a rental car too.

Tags, more tags and pedestrians in Xīméndīng (西門町)

They say that everything is bigger in Texas, but for sidewalks in this state, the opposite tends to be true. Along W Magnolia Ave in Fort Worth's Near Southside, however, there is one stretch of sidewalk that Texans can truly be proud of. In the typical scenario, some cheesy slant (or even worse yet, vertical) parking would have been carved into this beautiful wide pavement, leaving very little room for pedestrians and forcing them to walk in a roundabout path around the parked cars. Thankfully, the sidewalk here has been spared from that nonsense and instead features nice, neat parallel parking as would be found in the large cities of any other state.

Athens, GA in the rain. Unfortunately, it was raining and I could only stay about half an hour, because I was going to see La bohème in Atlanta. I was actually late for the Opera, which interestingly meant I got free wine.

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Chris Lockhart - photography, graphic design, creativity

Limeade Studio, NC, USA.

Man, sometimes a cameraphone is handy. Otherwise I'd have missed the chance to share this discovery with all of you!

Patent, 1930

I haven't driven in nine months but I still kicked this parallel parking spot's ass. Reene was my witness too.

Of course, it was probably just a fluke.

a potem biadolenie, ze nie ma gdzie parkować...

czyż nie? po co zostawiać miejsce dla kogoś więcej, będzie mi łatwiej wyjechać.

polacy uczą się z zachodu najgorszych rzeczy (umierająca już zresztą w UE miłość do samochodu), dlaczego nie mogą się nauczyć jak samochodu się używa??

The Chevy Equinox is longer and wider than its competitive set; in fact, it’s nearly a foot longer than the Ford Escape and has, on average, a 10 inch longer wheelbase than the competition.

Seriously.

I'm fairly sure this is the official Roman pastime.

YEA VERILY THESE are the backsides of 517 6th St (left, the Peter Johnson Building, built 1915) and 515 6th St (right, the Isaac Weisman Building, built 1920), noted here for being "a matched set... built five years apart (in 1915 and 1920) by different owners."

Let's meet for a quicky in my Chevy Avalanche, which I have positioned picturesquely here on the street.

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In downtown Racine, Wisconsin, on April 25th, 2021, buildings on the north side of 7th Street (Wisconsin highways 20 and 32), east of Villa Street. They are "contributing properties" in the Historic Sixth Street Historic District, 88000263 on the National Register of Historic Places.

There is the backside of Krung Thai Cuisine.

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Crystal Drive went on a road diet, narrowing the road's cross-section by about half -- turning the extra area over to a landscaped section alongside the sidewalk. Portions of this landscaping also provide additional infrastructure such as bus stops.

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2012 06 21 - Used on Greater Greater Washington

18 December 2008 @ approx. 12 pm on New Hey Road Bradford West Yorkshire.

Picture captured by John Ronan (Redronan) using mobile phone technology, then kindly donated to me for post-processing.

Have you lived in New London all your life. Did you ever shop at the "In-N-Out Deli Mart" for "Caribbean cuisine, milk, groceries, cigarettes" before it closed.

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In downtown New London, Connecticut, on September 21st, 2021, 133 Green St, a/k/a 28 Pearl St, a "contributing property" in the Downtown New London Historic District, 79002665 and 88000070 on the National Register of Historic Places, at the intersection of Pearl Street and Green Street. Per Sanborn fire insurance maps, the building appears to have been built no later than 1884. One or two stories may have been added later? Starting sometime in the 1890s it apparently housed the offices of the New London Daily Globe.

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As mentioned earlier, the Equinox is a lot longer than its competitors. This gives you much more interior room for rear seat passengers. The backseat can move forward and back, and has a nifty cover over the expansion gap created by this movement in the rear cargo area.

As mentioned earlier, the Equinox is a lot longer than its competitors. This gives you much more interior room for rear seat passengers. The backseat can move forward and back, and has a nifty cover over the expansion gap created by this movement in the rear cargo area.

18 December 2008 @ approx. 12 pm on New Hey Road Bradford West Yorkshire.

Picture captured by John Ronan (Redronan) using mobile phone technology, then kindly donated to me for post-processing.