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Our cars are getting bigger - and now it is being investigated whether the parking spaces should also be | India | DR Vejdirektoratet's recommendations for the size of a car park were last updated in 2009. Of When brand new cars today roll off the production lines at all over the world, it is not only exciting designs and new gadgets that you notice. We see in some places that you makes booths that are narrower than what is recommended by the Danish Road Directorate. The cars are getting bigger and bigger - and at the same time we Danes have become happier and happier for large cars. But when it comes to backing into the parking lot, many will probably be able to recognize that the size of parking spaces has not kept pace with the cars' development in recent years. Therefore, the Danish Road Directorate has launched new surveys, which before the new year can lead to new recommendations for the sizes of the Danish car parks. Antvorskov, head of department at the Danish Road Directorate. - If there has been a larger percentage of larger or smaller cars, which justifies that many need a larger one, we will change our recommendations. See below how much a well-known car on Danish roads has grown over On a daily basis, Rune Eklund drives around Aalborg and visits customers as an independent IT technician. But when it's time to park, the problems start to show. For his white station wagon, according to him, does not fit into many of the city's parking bays. - There are not many in advance, and if you look for those that are long enough, it just gets even worse. Rune Eklund does not think it is possible to buy a smaller car because he drives around on a daily basis with IT equipment that both weighs and fills a lot. - If I had a smaller car for parking, I would be forced to rent a freight forwarder who could drive out with the things to my customers instead.Today, neither private companies nor municipalities are required to follow the Road Directorate's recommendations. And this is a problem, according to the car owners' organization. The Danish Road Directorate has recommended that the recommended width of a car park be raised from the current 2.5 meters to 2.6 meters. The problem is that the dimensions of car parks have not developed for many years. As the cars get bigger, there will also be a greater need for space in the stalls, says Dennis Lange. The last time the Danish Road Directorate updated their recommendations was back in 2009. Here the recommendations came to sound that a stall should be five meters long and 2 , 5 meters wide - in some cases, however, only 2.3 meters.And it is time for an update of the recommendations, believes. Because we Danes have become happier with larger cars and do not buy as many new micro and mini cars as before. - It is the larger models that are increasingly attracting Danes. We see, for example, that electric cars are becoming more popular. For example, VW ID.4 and Hyundai IONIQ 5, which are relatively large cars, says Dennis Lange. By looking more closely at the sales figures for cars in Denmark, FDM has been able to establish that Danes today buy larger cars and drop smaller models. Below are two examples. At Q-Park, which is one of the country's largest private parking companies, you follow the recommendations from the Danish Road Directorate, which apply at the time when new parking proposals are built or renovated, says CEO, Alex Pedersen. -the size of the stalls today as a problem today, he has also noticed that many cars on the Danish roads have grown.- Especially many of the latest electric cars are very large, and it is clear that it gives rise to future considerations, especially in connection with renovations and new construction. However, Q-Park has no plans to change the sizes of the parking booths in the facilities that have already been made, as long as they do not see major problems. can it have an impact on new facilities.- If there are new ones, this is one of the things we will consider looking at. For it must be a good experience to park.