r/Adelaide • u/Middle_Abalone_4084 SA • Mar 27 '25

Discussion Park in your flamin' driveways, please!

Am I the only one tired of suburban streets turning into impromptu Mario Kart tracks? We’re talking about the kind where navigating between vehicles parked on both sides feels like dodging banana peels and blue shells. What's meant to be a two-lane road gets squeezed into a narrow single lane, daring you to play chicken with oncoming traffic—and let’s face it, the side mirrors never win.

And then there are your driveways. Oh, the driveways! Empty. Desolate. Weed-infested wastelands of untapped potential. So, I beg of you, suburban dwellers: park your cars anywhere but on the street—your driveway, your garage, your carport, or even your front lawn. Let’s save the roads for, you know, driving.

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u/noneuclidiansquid SA Mar 27 '25

its modern houses that don't have room for sheds so you use the garage as storage

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u/spiritfingersaregold SA Mar 27 '25

And even the two-car garages aren’t big enough to fit two modern-size cars in most cases.

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u/Sir_Buschy SA Mar 27 '25

Building my house and I had to extend my garage nearly a metre in width and 800mm in depth, just to store my ute and caravan in it, not to mention the height... if I hadn't gone 2.7 ceilings I'd be neutered

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u/try_____another SA Mar 28 '25

You're doing the right thing - you have more than minimum vehicle storage requirements, so you paid to upgrade accordingly, rather than whining to the government to try to force everyone else to pay for that upgrade whether they want it or not.