It's just ridiculous. It's not like Switzerland is some socialist paradise and everyone drives a Trabant. I mean I park my car between the lines in Geneva (MtBlanc parking)... and couldn't get out, too narrow. In Lausanne, I couldn't get out of my old car (small BMW). What the hell is going on. Typical Swiss pig-headedness. Charge 20% more and make the places 20% bigger. Oh, and many parking garages have very tall "barriers" next to walls, so my carcan get it's front spoiler over it and I have to park not so close, with half the car sticking out into the road. Also, the Swiss just doggedly make very narrow lanes which lead to the ticket machines/barriers. WHYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!

To deliberately **** you off, which provides great entertainment for us.

It's all relative. I find the Swiss parkingspaces huge in comparison with the Spanish ones e.g.

Dude: If you are a chap, it's never good form to admit you can't park your car.

Leave that to us ladies who are car-park-challenged because we are under some false impression that 6 inches is a lot shorter than it actually is...

Or maybe you're too fat?

I can park the car... I can't get out of it. My current car is pretty small too.

I am very skinny.

You know what really grinds my gears?

When you have been at the solarium, you are coming down the stairwell, and the lights automatically go out. You feel your way around in the dark, and when you finally get to your car park level, there is someone without their dog on a leash.... Sheesh.

Just like coffee, it's a matter of standards.

CD is right. I managed to keep my alloys pristine for years in the UK, come to Switzerland and they look they've been attacked with an angle grinder. Why the hell do they need those stupid concrete lanes leading up to the ticket barriers and on the up/down ramps.

Good call from the OP- it annoys the hell out of me how narrow and/or short the spaces are here- front spoiler inevitably gets scraped, an you can guarantee a door ding from the massive 4x4/SUV that parks next to you.

At work the lights turn off when you take too long on the toilet You need to open the cubicle door to activate the sensor.

Are you saying that 20 years ago when parkings were built designers weren't sufficiently cunning to foresee that what then was basically a specialty vehicle would eventually become the must-have for local soccer mums?

At work the lights in the blokes bog's don't come on at all, its a scary place in there.

Are we working in the same building????

Hmpf. I have a LWB VW T4 van (5m10 long) and I have no problem
parking. The only place that is tight is the corkscrew in Sihlcity (Zurich),
the diameter of the corkscrew is only marginally larger than my turning circle

I think that is a good point for some places that are that old like the Glattzentrum.

However, newly build places like Sihlcity are just as narrow and I completely agree with Canadian Dude on this one: I have an A4 which is "rather small" for Sihlcity/Zurich standards. I do manage to get into the square, but it s a tight fit. Getting out of the car is difficult if there is another middle class car next to you. If it is bigger, well thats where all those dents come from...

I usually relief my anger by turning up the revs when I leave through the tunnels that lead out of the parking...

Sieman's area??

I agree they are very narrow and rather annoying. Though I'm a bit concerned for you CD, are you managing to use the back seat?? Does the back door open at all?

I agree, Sihlcity is a joke with the parking. Try it with babytwins! Once I had to put them in the boot, reverse out, then open the doors to put them in - when parked I could not open the doors wide enough on either side to put their baby capsules in the car!