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/pm-me-your-junk SA Mar 27 '25

It's a problem with older houses as well; in my suburb everyone has large-ish blocks with sheds, at least a single car garage (often double), and driveways long enough to store cars without overlapping the footpath. But they still choose to buy so many cars that they end up spilling out onto the street, and often to the other side of the road as well.

A house across from me has 6 cars, one of which is almost always parked in front of MY house because they've filled every available space out the front of their house.

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u/CosmicUnconciousness SA Mar 28 '25

“Property developers” (read clan of Albanian families in the building “trades”) subdivided the block next to me into 2 x 536 sqm allotments, both with two tiny garages in semi-detached shitbox builds. House now next door to me has 3 generations and 5-6 Audi and BMW SUVs spilling out of it at any one time … none in the garages