Women only parking
- Source: Global Times
- [21:38 December 28 2009]
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A parking lot exclusively for women drivers will open early next year at a shopping center in Shijiazhuang, the capital city of Hebei Province.
This women's parking lot, located underneath the Wanxiang Tiancheng shopping center, will be free of charge during the first several months, according to a report on Hebei Youth Daily.
The lot offers wider parking spaces especially designed for female drivers, who tend to cause twice as many collisions in parking lots than in other places, according to insurance company data.
The shopping center parking lot also provides three lights in every parking space to improve visibility for female drivers.
Bright colors, such as pink and light purple, and cute cartoon pictures decorate the parking lot. Female parking guides have been specially trained to direct the drivers when they park their vehicles.
Such public facilities for women only are no longer an exceptional phenomenon worldwide. For example, Japanese women enjoy women only subway cars and Russian women take pink taxis specifically for them.
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