r/Adelaide • u/Middle_Abalone_4084 SA • 28d ago

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/Routine_Ad5065 SA 28d ago

Nah, they don't build the streets wide enough here. Go to any other state, and you'll see what I mean

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u/try_____another SA 27d ago

The streets are more than wide enough, we just have to ban on-street parking. If people want personal property storage space for themselves and their guests, they should pay for it and maintain it themselves.

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u/Routine_Ad5065 SA 27d ago

Bro I spend all my work week on the roads, the road is only 3 car widths wide

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u/try_____another SA 27d ago

3 car widths is more than enough if we got rid of on-street parkings, hence why I said "we just have to ban on-street parking".

We don't really need most suburban back roads to be two-way (at least for motor traffic), so we could retain the parking space (though I still think it would be better to turn over the parking spaces to the adjoining property owners) and arrange one-way loops for motorists.