If you park on the wrong side of the street... where did you learn to drive?

[Anonymous]

I'm seeing this increasingly more often - people are parked on the left side of the street. I'm not talking about a delivery person who's parked for a minute max, but cars parked for 10, 30, 60+ minutes or even overnight. Where on earth did you people learn to drive? How hard is it to take a few seconds and turn around to park normally?

[Anonymous]

Cheverly, MD.

[Anonymous]

Why do you care?

[Anonymous]

No one in Maryland parks on the right side, like it's the law you can face either way. But I tried to find a law about this and couldn't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cheverly, MD.

This explains a lot.

[Anonymous]

Do you mean parking in a no parking zone? Or just parking with your car facing the wrong way?

If the later, who cares? There's literally no impact on anyone, and it may make it marginally easier to enter and exit the car. No harm no foul.

[Anonymous]

In Portland OR people do this all the time

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In Portland OR people do this all the time

Philly too. My husband from NY can’t get over it.

[Anonymous]

I know im Rockville it’s a law. Im
Pretty sure in moco it is too. You can get a ticket for parking “ left wheels to curb”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you mean parking in a no parking zone? Or just parking with your car facing the wrong way?

If the later, who cares? There's literally no impact on anyone, and it may make it marginally easier to enter and exit the car. No harm no foul.

You're probably the same annoying person who walks on the left side of the sidewalk/path/etc and drives your grocery cart on the left.

[Anonymous]

It's legal in most countries in Europe. Not legal in MD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In Portland OR people do this all the time

I never saw that when I lived in Portland, but I do it here because other people do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know im Rockville it’s a law. Im
Pretty sure in moco it is too. You can get a ticket for parking “ left wheels to curb”

I live on a one way street. How exactly am I supposed to avoid parking “left wheels to curb” when I’m parked in front of my house?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you mean parking in a no parking zone? Or just parking with your car facing the wrong way?

If the later, who cares? There's literally no impact on anyone, and it may make it marginally easier to enter and exit the car. No harm no foul.

Unless it is a one way, the driver had to drive on the wrong side of the road to get by the curb in that direction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm seeing this increasingly more often - people are parked on the left side of the street. I'm not talking about a delivery person who's parked for a minute max, but cars parked for 10, 30, 60+ minutes or even overnight. Where on earth did you people learn to drive? How hard is it to take a few seconds and turn around to park normally?

It's not hard to turn around. The problem is if it's a busy street, that parking space may not be there if you have to turn around to park in it. Sometimes you've just to grab it while you can.