Comments on: #13 Story Reverse Angle Parking Off to Shaky Start https://capecharleswave.com/2015/07/reverse-angle-parking-off-to-shaky-start/ Your Online Newspaper in Cape Charles, Virginia Fri, 07 Aug 2015 21:55:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 By: Dana Lascu https://capecharleswave.com/2015/07/reverse-angle-parking-off-to-shaky-start/#comment-173084 Tue, 26 May 2015 02:56:20 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=16585#comment-173084 Maybe reverse angled parking is not completely ass-backwards. Research indicates that head-in parking produces three times more accidents. We’ll give it a try, won’t we?! It was a fifty-fifty split early this afternoon, with half of the vehicles conforming, half not conforming. And some sticking out way too far into the street.

]]> By: Scott Walker Jr https://capecharleswave.com/2015/07/reverse-angle-parking-off-to-shaky-start/#comment-173079 Mon, 25 May 2015 21:42:43 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=16585#comment-173079 Re; WrongAngled Parking
HooooYaaaa Duffy’s.
Let’s have a plebecite on the issue…
Let’s get Historical,not Hysterical…!
JJ…NY, where are you when we need backup?

]]> By: Ken and Mary Dufty https://capecharleswave.com/2015/07/reverse-angle-parking-off-to-shaky-start/#comment-173071 Mon, 25 May 2015 17:12:13 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=16585#comment-173071 We have had the pleasure of traveling far and wide to supply our antique/clock shop in Exmore, and our sources include friends and business associates in 9 states. Often we travel to Portland Maine to purchase exciting merch that our friend imports from Nepal and Indonesia. On Front Street visitors are neatly directed to angle park, and we have become fans of that parking scheme. But there, as it is in Concord, New Hampshire and parts of Burlington, Vermont, the directional lines are drawn so that visitors pull in, nose first,,,making the experience easy and safer. As for backing out, we and others simply slide into reverse, ease out, and folks (many who want OUR parking space) yield accordingly. In Cape Charles, it might well serve your many patrons to repaint those space dividers so they face the right way. The current angle is about the least tourist-friendly scheme we have seen in any of our travels. Just sayin…..

]]> By: Scott Walker Jr https://capecharleswave.com/2015/07/reverse-angle-parking-off-to-shaky-start/#comment-173070 Mon, 25 May 2015 17:03:47 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=16585#comment-173070 More on Backwards Parking

With a town like Cape Charles, obsessed with historical accuracy,
the back-in first method does not comport with the earlier postcard
showing “traditional” nose-in parking circa 1930s.

The current lanes tend to generate an uneasy karma. Flip em, folks!

]]> By: Linda Downs https://capecharleswave.com/2015/07/reverse-angle-parking-off-to-shaky-start/#comment-173067 Mon, 25 May 2015 16:02:29 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=16585#comment-173067 I always thought one had to “break a law” in order to receive a ticket. I don’t think these parking tickets would stand up in court, given the basis is just a sign. I was raised to obey the law, but where’s the law governing this parking decision? I have personally observed people who in their attempts to back in have not gone back far enough and their cars extend unsafely too far; cars which are too far over one way or the other which will result in dents and scratches to their parking neighbors (particularly as children try to exit their passenger seats); and, delays in traffic flow as folks pull forward and then back up, leaving a line of incoming traffic in the wait. Are you going to “hand out” parking instructions on RT. 13 to visitors as they approach town? Cape Charles wants visitors, but you’d ticket them when they arrive. How friendly is that?

]]> By: Dick Shannonhouse https://capecharleswave.com/2015/07/reverse-angle-parking-off-to-shaky-start/#comment-173017 Sat, 23 May 2015 15:44:55 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=16585#comment-173017 I like the comment by one of the Watson brothers, that customers in their store are supposed to but not required to walk into the store backwards. Next time on the shore I will definitely walk into their store backwards. Godspeed – Dick

]]> By: Scott Walker Jr https://capecharleswave.com/2015/07/reverse-angle-parking-off-to-shaky-start/#comment-173002 Fri, 22 May 2015 22:00:36 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=16585#comment-173002 More on the current backwards parking:
Nose-In gives an east-bound driver the option to do a 180 and nose in;
Nose-In offers a quick parking effort for the driver in a (frequent) hurry;
Nose-In makes it easier to “center” the vehicle between the white lines;
Nose-In facilitates the driver’s tendency to sight back down the road for clearance;
Rack ‘em up, stack em up!

]]> By: Bill Stramm https://capecharleswave.com/2015/07/reverse-angle-parking-off-to-shaky-start/#comment-172945 Tue, 19 May 2015 22:51:09 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=16585#comment-172945 The main reason the Planning Commission recommended reverse angle parking was two fold. First, and most importantly was to create additional parking spaces. Secondly, reverse angle was selected because VDOT disapproved the town’s request for angled parking due to safety reasons.

]]> By: David Gay https://capecharleswave.com/2015/07/reverse-angle-parking-off-to-shaky-start/#comment-172938 Tue, 19 May 2015 17:52:08 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=16585#comment-172938 I like the new angled parking, have been using it for almost a week, and have had no problems. Great job!

]]> By: Stephen K. Fox https://capecharleswave.com/2015/07/reverse-angle-parking-off-to-shaky-start/#comment-172937 Tue, 19 May 2015 16:58:49 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=16585#comment-172937 It seems that the flow of traffic into the Town is largely from the east. Couldn’t the Town have achieved the same objective by drive in parking angled the other way? This configuration seems very cumbersome, and calculated to cause a lot of delay in traffic movement. Time will tell, but it does seem very awkward.

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