How do you cope with a tandem driveway?

Drawingaline

We are a one car family without any driveway. It is my absolute must on our next house. So obviously I wouldn't care about a driveway like this. But if my husband did drive, and we both needed cars then we would both be insured on both and then whoever needed to leave first would take the one at the back. Seems the most sensible option to me. But then I am not precious about my car, for me it is a way of getting from a to b, nothing more.

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Oh this would cause me grief ! Not for me 

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Doozergirl said:

They let anything through planning these days. 

I have a long thin drive.  Can fit 3 cars in a row, plus one in the garage at the end if you can be bothered.

Was built in the sixties when the thought of an ordinary suburban family having two cars was unthinkable!  So its not a new thing.  The drive is basically just a road to the garage. 

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Chandler85 said:

sell both your cars but two identical ones then you can just use whichever car is at the back without feeling you have the wrong car...

My parents have done this.  Now they just need a system to remember which car is which and a way to tell the keys apart. 

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jackieblack said:

My neighbour got around this problem by converting their front lawn to a gravelled parking area

Ah, what a shame.

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EmmyLou30 said:

 What you don't do is buy a house like this and then think it's ok to park your car in the street in front of other peoples houses (legally ok, morally not so much if you have a perfectly good drive) just because you're too lazy to do the car shuffle. Our neighbours did this....1 car on a 3 car drive....2 in the street somewhere. All it led to after a while of this behaviour was other people not using their tandem driveways and leaving 1 car in front their own house to stop them so now the whole street was cluttered with cars even though everyone had enough driveway space for 2-3 cars. So the whole street suffered due to one lazy family. So yeah, don't be that guy! 

Were there double yellow lines or other parking restrictions on your road?

Algorfa

Like some others I'd never heard the term tandem drive until this thread but it seems we've always had them.  We decided to reduce to one car last year which in retrospect was a very wise decision.  While we had two it was never a problem as we just made sure they were in the right position, Never an issue for us, even when we had visitors and there were three on the drive.  Nextdoor seem to have issues though as their household has four cars most of the time and they are forever shuffling the pack.  I did suggest they might be better building an underground car park!

bucksbloke

I have had this for the last 10 years in three different properties. It isn't an issue. 

freesha

So I am guessing by this that you're not both insured and/or happy to drive either car?!

SharkMoney

We are both insured on each car but it just feels like a pain to have to go out and be asked to move the car.
We have actually found a house we really like today and seriously considering compromising on it’s single drive! It has space for 2 cars and you *could* park outside the house but it’s a shared driveway so neighbours might be annoyed squeezing past.