I had no idea we were that big (though granted I've never seen the UK on top of the US before) I guess it's just a perspective thing when you're viewing it on a map?
But hey, the UK is far bigger than I thought. You learn something new every day!
Probably perspective, yeah. But not perspective like “it looks smaller relative so it’s probably this small but actually it’s a bit bigger because size estimation” but instead “the map was made with this cartographic perspective so things within x degrees on the poles look smaller/larger so we can make a globe into a flat map”
Actually, it's a lot bigger than I thought. Looks like it would take maybe 12+ hours to drive through when really I thought everything was only a few hours apart.
Bingo. Where I live they paint the curbs bright yellow where parking will get you towed. Most of them anyways. Plenty of places you can’t park that don’t have curbs.
Texas is 3 times larger than the uk. The closest state in size to England is Louisiana, which has 135,659 km². So definitely larger seems like an understatement.
I have seen painted curbs in AZ, TX, CO, CA, OR, WA, KS, OK, FL, NM, UT, AL, MS, GA, HI, AK, MA, & MI. Just places the military has sent me for multiple weeks where I had to drive or lived. It seems rather ubiquitous to me.
Im kinda surprised you havent noticed them in the U.S. since every state pretty much uses them. Red zones typically indicate absolutely no parking or stopping (this includes idling) and are usually for something such as a fire lane (especially in parking lots) but yellow can also mean it as well. Yellow usually can permit loading and unloading but otherwise dont linger. Green varies too much and blue is for handicapped zones.
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u/keltik055 Nov 08 '19
I live in the US and ive never seen painted red area near sidewalks like this guy is talking about, so I'm just as confused as you are.