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8:46 pm
28th December 09
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Graham
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A shopping centre in China's Hebei province has built a car park with wider spaces that it says is designed especially to suit women drivers.
The women-only car park in Shijiazhuang city is also painted in pink and light purple to appeal to female tastes.
Official Wang Zheng told AFP news agency the car park was meant to cater to women's “strong sense of colour and different sense of distance”.
The parking bays are one metre (3ft) wider than normal spaces, he said.
The Wanxiang-Tiancheng shopping centre had also “installed signs and security monitoring equipment that corresponded more to women's needs”, he said.
The Global Times website says female parking attendants have been trained to help guide women drivers into their parking spaces. The bays also have extra lighting.
Driving in China is a dangerous activity, with more than 200 deaths in road accidents each day last year, AFP reports, citing police statistics.
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11:30 pm
28th December 09
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Ciderman
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I thought there was going to be a picture!
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Civilisation is a veneer, easily soluble in alcohol.
http://cidermannz.blogspot.com/
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11:34 am
29th December 09
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Mags
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If you need a space 3ft wider than normal to park, then you shouldn't be driving. I wouldn't use this car park because I wouldn't want people to think I couldn't park normally. Ok, I occasionally need help with parallel parking but usually I can manage it, if there isn't an impatient male driver at the back of me who can't wait a few minutes for me to get out of his way.
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6:23 pm
29th December 09
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Graham
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Of course there is no such thing as an impatient female driver.
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8:12 pm
29th December 09
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Ciderman
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I've got a daughter who can back with a trailer using only her mirrors, but it does seem , more generally, that ladies don't like going backwards!
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Civilisation is a veneer, easily soluble in alcohol.
http://cidermannz.blogspot.com/
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2:24 am
30th December 09
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Me.
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Good Lord, Michael, your daughter must be very powerful mirrors, I always use the car. 
I really must cast doubt over your last comment. Have you ever noted a woman with a shopping trolley in 'New World' or Countdown' supermarket at the day's busiest times? It should be compulsory they be accompanied by a qualified male driver, if only to stop them parking the *&^%$%^& thing in the middle of the aisle.
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7:30 am
3rd January 10
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I've been on the verge of reporting these posts because of their sexist comments. Any woman knows that the way to park perfectly is to stand beside the car and cry! It works for changing a car tyre too.
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9:56 am
3rd January 10
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Me.
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Lucy, don't stand on the verge, curb yourself, you could so easily be bowled by a driver who isn't male.
I must question your statement, “Any woman knows how to park perfectly.” Are you proposing all women should all surrender their driving licences when they pass the test? If so I am confident Michael will second such a motion. 
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8:39 am
4th January 10
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Lucy
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I try to make a wide-spread and honest observation on how we of the delicate gender can make life easier for ourselves, and I am saddened by the response of Me. Of course women should not hand their driving licences in. What utter nonsense. There is a special section of the Highway Code aimed only at women, and which men should never, ever see. It is within this section that the above Rules are quoted and must be learned by heart.
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9:58 am
4th January 10
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Mags
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And if we were to hand in our licences, who would drive all those men home from parties?
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