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

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.

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

Taken in 2008.

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

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

Look at the buildings and cars!

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In downtown Racine, Wisconsin, on April 25th, 2021, a view toward the intersection of 6th Street and Wisconsin Avenue in the Historic Sixth Street Historic District (88000263 on the National Register of Historic Places), from the north side of 7th Street (Wisconsin highways 20 and 32), east of College Avenue, at the site of the former Porters of Racine furniture store.

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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.

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.

Patent, 1930

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.

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

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.

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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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.

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??

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

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

Washington Height, Manhattan

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

A demonstration of Liz Danzico's jaw-dropping parallel parking skillz. Does this trump Stan's feat from a couple of months ago? You decide.

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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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.

Icelandic Style parallel parking outside Hotel Borg.

"Before" pictures of an area that will receive widened sidewalks (widening into the parking lane) as part of DDOT's upcoming first phase U Street Reconstruction.

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2012 11 19 - Used by Atlantic Cities.

2012 11 19 - Used by the NRDC.

Love, today, was standing in a parking lot, when it was dang friggin' cold, coaching my seventeen-year-old as he practiced parallel parking. We pretended that two empty garbage cans were the bumpers of cars in front of, and behind, the parking space he wanted.

I think Evan decided that parallel parking isn't as easy as it looks!

I HAVE INFERRED from Sanborn fire insurance maps that the building was built sometime between 1892 and 1898. It is shown as an office in 1898, and as an insurance office and "Mill'y B." or "Mill'g B." in 1914.

Do you like that Chevy Tracker from model years 1999-2004?

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In downtown Rochester, Pennsylvania, on July 10th, 2020, a building at the intersection of Brighton Avenue and Connecticut Avenue as viewed from the intersection of Brighton Avenue and West Washington Street.

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the Madonna Inn,

San Luis Obispo, California,

US of A.

If you are not good at parallel parking or parallel parking on the left side of the road next to an open canal, do NOT try this at home. In the distance is the Oude Kerk Delft

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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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.

The first time in a little while that I successfully completed a parallel park on the first try without hitting the curb.

Sad, but true. My strength used to be the Parallel Park years ago when I used to drive more frequently. But after not having driven in 5 years or so, it turns out that my Major has become my Minor.

I fucked it up on the road test. I fuck it up all the time. By "fucked it up", I don't mean really fucking it up, but I'm a perfectionist and take great pride in what I do. So nailing this on the first try made me happy. And since I had nobody with me to share my elation... that's where you come in.

:)

Mom style parallel parking

I actually parallel parked into this spot

This shot is for my boys, because the last time I got into a tight space (not nearly as tight as this one) they both pointed out that I was too far from the curb. Picky, picky! Did I do okay this time, guys? :)

When you are laughing and being laughed at.

San Francisco, CA