What's wrong with this driveway

[Stuart in MN]

I happened to notice this garage (and the driveway access to the first stall on the right) at a local apartment complex today.

 

[TAMPAGT07]

Speed bump???

 

[brownbagg]

thaTS the loading ramp

 

[BFBOB]

They charge extra for that one. It's a "green" garage - only good for bicycles, skateboards and granola storage.

 

[crewchief888]

looks ine to me...

 

[PCO6]

This looks like a candidate for the WTF thread! I think what happened is that the road to the right of the garage was widened at some point after the garage was constructed. The asphalt in front of the garage probably once had more distance to "grade out" to the road. The wood retaining wall (badly built) appears to be right at or even in the road right of way.

 

[upndown]

That's for testing the flex on your 4Wheeler..

 

[ddawg16]

That's for testing the flex on your 4Wheeler..

That is sort of what I was thinking. That would be easy in my rig

 

[chrisa7164]

That's the garage for the mini coopers and smart cars..you only need 2 feet width for them..lol..

 

[Gary S]

I can take a picture of the garage next to me if you like. It is another driveway WTF, and the owner doesn't even know it.

 

[brownbagg]

be honest its a storage shed, not a garage, you pull up, unload your truck and leave, there really nothing wrong with it

 

[ADSR]

Look at the retaining wall too. They put so much drain rock in it, it's going to fall over!

 

[Rusty Kustoms]

Is that in the lake Minnetonka area?? Sure looks typical to the area.

 

[malibu101]

Like PCO6 said- The road may have been widened at some point in time.
Seeing that it's a multi-bay garage that side can just be used for the large tool area and storage space.
Like LORDDiESEL said- that railroad tie wall does look pretty bowed.

OR a set of wheel dollies and push the car to the next bay to get it out.

 

[Stuart in MN]

Is that in the lake Minnetonka area?? Sure looks typical to the area.

Yup, it's right along Shoreline Drive on the north side of the lake.

 

[bazzateer]

OR a set of wheel dollies and push the car to the next bay to get it out.

Might be a dividing wall between each stall?

 

[PCO6]

I think what happened is that the road to the right of the garage was widened at some point after the garage was constructed.

You should quote your sources. See Post #6 in which I said ...

"I think what happened is that the road to the right of the garage was widened at some point after the garage was constructed."

 

[mmack66]

Regardless of whether the road was widened or not, that doesn't look like it would have ever had easy access, unless the whole street was lowered at the same time.

What does the back side look like?

 

[mmack66]

You should quote your sources. See Post #6 in which I said ...

"I think what happened is that the road to the right of the garage was widened at some point after the garage was constructed."

That is some kind of spam post that I have seen pop up here lately. They just repost some sentence from a different post.

 

[bazzateer]

That is some kind of spam post that I have seen pop up here lately. They just repost some sentence from a different post.

Nope, I read that post (#6) earlier before any of your posts appeared. You must've just missed it when you read through the thread before making your post.

 

[bazzateer]

Maybe the entrance to the garage area has been moved at some point? It could have been somewhere behind the camera and the ground in front of the garage would have been level.

 

[NASTYZEN]

Cmon, your all wrong.
Saudi garage.

 

[mmack66]

Nope, I read that post (#6) earlier before any of your posts appeared. You must've just missed it when you read through the thread before making your post.

I was referring to the post that PCO6 quoted, that has subsequently been removed. That "user" did the same thing in a different thread, and I have seen the same thing in other threads.

 

[HoosierMark]

I have seen this more often then you think. The road probably was only 1 lane per side with no sidewalk originally. When the road was widened and the sidewalk built, this is what was left. The owner should have been compensated for the loss of utility for the garage along with the loss of the land between the building and the original lot line. If you travel just south of Indianapolis on I-65 you will see a storage facility with a row of garage doors that open to the fence along the highway right of way. The building was built before the exit ramp was reconstructed. The mini warehouse owner probably took the divider wall out and made bigger units accessible from the other side. Of course he would have been very well compensated by the State of IN. In the picture, the unit would now be considered a storage area not a garage, it may be accessible from the adjoining unit on the inside but you cannot see that.. It is a neat picture that certainly makes you think.

 

[bazzateer]

I was referring to the post that PCO6 quoted, that has subsequently been removed. That "user" did the same thing in a different thread, and I have seen the same thing in other threads.

Ah! That explains it!

 

[Stuart in MN]

Well, I posted the picture just because I thought it was funny. I'm pretty sure the width of the street predates the apartment complex, so that end garage unit has been that way since day one and has always been used for storage.

 

[PCO6]

^^^ If that's the case the Town must have allowed the property owner to build in the road right-of-way. It's possible that the picture may be playing a trick on us but it appears that the municipal fire hydrant is farther from the road surface than the retaining wall. It should be the other way around.

 

[Stuart in MN]

The fire hydrant is right against the sidewalk, in line with the retaining wall. The wall is tipping way out so it's a little bit of an optical illusion. There's a lot of stuff in not much space in this particular stretch of road (it's a narrow strip of land in between two lakes, only about 100 yards wide) so I can only imagine some concessions had to be made when the garages were built.