Do you like the current parking laws (you’re pretty much not allowed to park anywhere except in designated parking spots) or do you want it to be more like real life (allowed to park on the side of the road, etc.)?
I mean Redwood Boulevard is an overly wide two-lane road with center-left turn lane so I don’t see a problem with parking there. If it were to be made realistic, it would require any parked vehicles to leave enough space to the left of them so that any passing cars won’t have to violate road markings to pass the parked car.
Seeing as most of you like the realistic method and it’s more for v3 (although the majority of v3 curb parkings are marked no parking), I’m gonna be implementing that. What would be really cool is if v3 had colored curbs other than just red for fire hydrants to indicate different parking restrictions like in real life.
Our roads here in the greatest goddamn city in the world are wide enough to allow people to park on the side, and to allow cars to continue smoothly.
The parking space is wide enough to allow a regular car to park, and the section of the main road beside it is at least 1.5 times the width of a car to allow extra space.
If we were to implement side parking in Firestone, it would either require the relabelling of a single lane of traffic, or widening the road to include a “third lane” small enough to accomodate side parking.
And then we get to the hassles of parallel parking.