Letters to the Editor: A plea to drivers of large vehicles to choose their parking spaces wisely for other drivers’ safety
It’s interesting that where you park your vehicle can be a safety issue to other motorists, best described by this scenario: You are driving in a multilevel parking garage, you approach the corner to turn onto the next level, look for oncoming cars, but wait a second! Parked in the last space is a truck, SUV or minivan, and your view is completely obscured by this large vehicle, making it impossible to determine if there is an oncoming vehicle, so you inch forward until a view is possible.
Or here’s another example: You’re driving down a side street and approaching the corner to make a turn onto a busy street, but wait! There is a truck, SUV or minivan parked in the last space right on the corner again, completely obscuring the road.
Both of these situations are a safety concern I’m sure many have experienced.
Is it illegal for a large vehicle to park in these end spaces? No, of course not. Can anything be done to discourage this situation? I don’t think so. Can parking garages post signs? I doubt that would happen, but I would welcome them for safety’s sake. Is this a personal issue? Well, yes, in a way, as I have seen so many near accidents. My intention is only for owners of larger vehicles to please be aware of the potential safety risk when parking in end spaces.
Robert Feldman
Burbank
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Re: “Microsoft has its own grammar mistakes,” A Word, Please, July 22. Interesting article, but let us not overlook that “awhile” as used in this article, is one word versus “a while,” which appears printed incorrectly more than once. This is an example of flaws in the spell-check programs that came along years ago with the introduction of word processing. As many can attest, spell checkers are both a blessing and a curse!
My former CSUN journalism teachers are, I’m sure, rolling in their graves over what has happened and become accepted with the English language due to the introduction of personal computers.
Marva Murphy
Burbank
Editor’s note: A Word, Please columnist June Casagrande addressed the use of “a while” and “awhile” in a June 2017 column.