Changed my mind about those stupid angled parking spots after a brutal week

I used to think angled parking was fine, no big deal. Then last Tuesday I scraped my passenger side door on a concrete pillar at the grocery lot on 5th street in Denver. That same week, watched three different people nearly back into each other trying to pull out of those angled spaces. The angles just make people drive faster through the lot and block visibility. Has anyone else noticed way more near misses with angled vs straight parking?

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morgan.cameron5d ago

That part about people driving faster through the lot really hits home for me. Is there something about angled spots that just makes everyone forget they're in a parking lot and not on the highway?

evand655d ago

Nah, you've got it backwards. Angled spots actually slow people down if anything because you have to angle your car in and out. The real problem is those wide open straight lanes that look like a drag strip. People rip through those regardless of the spot angle because there's zero visual friction. Blame the lot design itself, not the angle of the spaces.