When Only On Street Angled Parking is available, do you back in, or drive in?

[Smitty42]

When only on street angled in parking is available, do you back in or go straight in?

 

[Peter Aawen]

That depends very much upon where you are!

Here in Oz, the angling of any angled parking spaces generally guides you in which way to park, but sometimes, the parking spaces are at 90° to the traffic flow, and it's not quite so intuitive, so you can get it wrong, not often, but... However, we've also got some places/local Govt areas where it's not quite so clear (it's often signposted somewhere obscure tho) and any angled parking must be done 'Rear to Kerb'; and other places/local Govt areas (again, usually signposted on the far end of the street or around the corner!) where you must park 'Nose to Kerb'!! If you can't see any other cars to give you a hint, so you take a punt and get it wrong, it'll very likely cost you, often as much as a couple of hundred $$, plus a dodgy 'Victims of Crime' levy (what bleedin' 'crime'!!) that can be almost $200 as well, bringing the total up close to $400!!

It was only once, but do you really need to ask me how I know this?!

So check the cars around you, or check with the local Authorities, or failing anything else, park at your own risk!

 

[LongIsland]

The parking is angled for pulling-in else you have to maneuver your ride in reverse, blocking traffic. In all pull-in parking spaces, I park with the rear of my ride even with the rear of the vehicles to my right and/or left. This prevents a vehicle driver from thinking it's an open space and pulling in too fast with the possibility of hitting my ride.

 

[Gwolf]

What matters a lot on vehicles with no reverse gear does not matter so much on vehicles with reverse and a parking brake.

Angled parking is usually to pull in front to the curb. You may have a decision to make on any vehicle parking in un-level spots. Pushing a heavy bike back up hill in a sloping parking space is something to avoid without a reverse gear. Pulling in with the rear to the curb and letting it roll back will allow you to start up and leave the sloped parking space in gear, without any pushing.

And you thought all that line of bikes backed up to the curb was for a fast get-a-way...

 

[2dogs]

I didn't know they had those anymore? Anyway, when they did, I backed my 2-wheeled machine into those parking spots. Safer to back into a parking spot than to back into traffic. JMHO

 

[Jackhartjr]

After driving a truck for 45 years, and meeting cops and dot revenue enhancement agents that are given a ticket book with instructions to write as many tickets as they can, here is my take. On angled parking, pull straight into the space. Back out when leaving. Invariably you will get that one ticket writer that doesn't like you backing in, and writes a bull crap ticket that you have to fight!

 

[Mazo EMS2]

Depends where you are and traffic. I try to never block/slow traffic while parking. Many times my wife and I will try to both fit into one stall too. If single in a stall, park far enough out so that no one tries to swing into what they think is an empty stall

 

[Bfromla]

Two wheel - depending on traffic/group & number of spots available, usually back in, popular locations where was available was 90° & minor slope. Three wheel - avoid/leave for two wheel, just look for car spot. (SHADE wins whatever available)

 

[JayBros]

I agree with those who consider the location and traffic.

 

[Dansy]

Depends on the angle of arrival and departure, I don’t even always back in for parking, depends on the circumstances…

 

[2dogs]

If the angled parking spot is on a slope, it can pose a serious issue for a 2-wheeler. But, those days are gone now.

 

[Lowflyingowl]

FYI, Bridgeport, California, County Seat of Mono County, has angled parking downtown where you MUST back into the space. I have on idea why...

 

[Gwolf]

FYI, Bridgeport, California, County Seat of Mono County, has angled parking downtown where you MUST back into the space. I have on idea why...

The first 3 words in your post explain it well enough that I understand why.

 

[GRHorst]

Here in Reading, PA, there are parking lots and garages downtown. Even where the parking spot is 90-degrees to the drive lane, it's against the rules to back in. I don't think it has anything to do with logic or reason. I suspect it's a fund-raising income source for the city parking authority to write tickets for backing in. (Anyone from the parking authority sees this post... then...

 

[JohnRuckus]

Both, but my preference is reverse.

 

[pegasus1300]

On two wheels, I backed in, on the Spyder with the reverse, I just pull in.

 

[Gwolf]

All the silly rules and parking tickets is what drove business out of the downtown areas of cities. The large developers placed a few big box stores, lots of eating places, and speciality stores out of down town in easy to access areas along the main roads going through the towns. They paved huge parking lots with easy access, free parking, very few silly parking rules, curbside pickup at the larger stores, and covered walkways between the stores and restaurants. The city councils with their nickel and dime collections and fines are responsible for driving the business out of down town and to the huge malls, which put a lot of the older, local, privately owned stores out of business. The city councils are still suppressing local business owners by giving the large box stores tax breaks to locate in their city, so that shoppers don't leave to do their shopping in another nearby city or town that has a better selection or stores. They offer free utilities or no city taxes for several decades to entice popular store brand names to locate in the new malls. The down town area which was once the business center of the smaller towns in rural counties are now crumbling ruins where the city just bulldozes the condemned buildings and puts in a park to get rid of the eyesore, and all at the expense of city tax payers. Good for joggers and sometimes the city brings in local bands to play music for special occasions, but the business area is long gone. Other condemned buildings are demolished to put in free paved parking lots to try to attract some business back to the down town area. What is left, is the used furniture, junk shops, a few offices, and snack bars.

 

[Lew L]

I ALWAYS back in on 2 wheels. The poor, old, slow V-Max is a heavy one!! On the Spyder, angled parking, I nose in.

Lew L

 

[Br549rick]

That depends on how quick I wanna getaw... uhh, leave!!!