China introduces women-only car park... with extra wide spaces to cater for their 'special needs'

Fairer sex: The women's parking area at the Wanxiang Tiancheng shopping centre in Hebei province, China, features oversize spaces


Women drivers have long been the subject of ridicule.

But a Chinese shopping centre has gone one step further and developed a car park to cater for their 'special needs'.

The facility features bigger-than-normal parking spaces - clearly for all those ladies who simply can't manage any tricky manouevres on their way to the mall.

Bays have extra lighting and the colour scheme is pink and light purple. There are also specially trained female parking attendants to guide drivers into spaces.


Special needs: The parking lot also has trained attendants and a women friendly colour scheme


Wang Zheng, an official at the Wanxiang Tiancheng shopping centre in Hebei province's Shijiazhuang city, said the car park 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.


source: dailymail