Chinese car park makes space for women only

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BEIJING (AFP) - A shopping centre in China has opened a car park that offers women drivers bigger-than-normal parking spaces to accommodate what it sees as their special needs.

Wang Zheng, an official at the Wanxiang Tiancheng shopping centre in Hebei province's Shijiazhuang city, told AFP Monday the women-only parking lot aimed to address women's "strong sense of colour and different sense of distance."

The spaces are "one metre wider than normal parking spaces," Wang said, adding that the mall had "installed signs and security monitoring equipment that corresponded more to women's needs."

Driving in China is notoriously dangerous, with nearly 73,500 people killed in road accidents last year, or just over 200 fatalities per day, according to police statistics.


If only we had those in America...
 

iversonyin

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they definitely need this in the U.S.

but i can imagine the women activist group will come out in full force....
 

rudder

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ahh the peanut patrol. Racism and sexism all rolled into one bite sized morsel. Your parents should be proud.
 

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Wang Zheng, an official at the Wanxiang Tiancheng shopping centre in Hebei province's Shijiazhuang city, told AFP Monday the women-only parking lot aimed to address women's "strong sense of colour and different sense of distance."

LOL
 

coloumb

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Women actually drive in China? During my business trip to Dalian a few months ago - only men were driving [taxi's and personal cars].

LOL at the video.. :)
 

dighn

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Women actually drive in China? During my business trip to Dalian a few months ago - only men were driving [taxi's and personal cars].

LOL at the video.. :)

they tend to fear driving. with good reason perhaps.
 

Farang

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On the metro in Seattle the driver once ran up along the curb inside the downtown tunnel and scraped the side of the bus really badly. The driver did this after being startled by an oncoming light rail train coming around the corner, which shares the tunnel.

A passenger remarked "I've been riding the bus for over 20 years and I've never seen anything like that."

You can guess the driver's gender and ethnicity.
 

Red Squirrel

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Haha that is funny. They should have that here too, and while they're at it, soft foam protective stuff around posts so they don't damage their cars.
 

MichaelD

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Very interesting, funny and necessary concept. However w/o pics of said handicapped...er, "special needs" spaces, fail article is fail.