Re: I saw the future today.

Keith F. Lynch <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> <rkshullat@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Paris is the place I remember seeing the creative parking, with cars
>> parked on sidewalks, sideways between other cars, on the grass next
>> to trees, etc.  Except for residential streets, parking in the US
>> seems to be quite a bit more regimented than in Europe.
> 
> "Except for residential streets" is right.  Here in Virginia, I can
> seldom walk more than half a mile on a sidewalk without encountering
> at least one car that's been parked on or across it.  Occasionally
> a motorist even pulls in right in front of me, stops his car on the
> sidewalk, shuts off the engine, and gets out, leaving me standing
> there right next to the vehicle.

A driver can be fined for blocking a sidewalk here (whether they will is
another question). Dallas is also strange in that most driveways are in
the back of the residence and entered from an alley, so there are not
nearly as many driveways crossing sidewalks.

	Robert
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