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Originally Posted by spdickey
It doesn't appear that the smarts are breaking the law. Its the driver's who park them illegally. More driver's education is needed to prevent unnecessary tickets.
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Driver's education? Seriously?
The law itself needs to be looked at and modified - we are already fighting one such ticket in San Jose.
The car is designed to be parked in this way and any law that doesn't allow it needs to be reconsidered. Urban areas suffer from congestion and lack of available parking. Our cars are part of the solution, not part of the problem.
Why take up more space than you need parking parallel when you can maximize available space by parking the way the car was designed to be parked - perpendicular. In addition, urban planners and legislatures should be encouraging the use of small, efficient and ultra low emissions cars like ours. Sure, my wife and I could just as easily drive our 10 MPG Land Rover into SF, but why not encourage us to take the Smart instead by providing the incentive of perpendicular parking?
Think about it - everyone wins. We get to park in those space between driveways that would otherwise be unusable by other cars, SF benefits because we left a parking space open to residents, and everyone benefits because we drove the smallest, most efficient car possible into the city.
** DavidV
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