Silver Lake Trader Joe's Parking Lot Gets an 'F-'

Get some Angelenos in a room and they're bound to start talking about the worst parking lots or jammed streets in town. This week, the online chatter is all about the overly-cozy lot down at the Trader Joe's in Silver Lake.

It was not only a target for The Awl, but the local lot received the lowest grade, an F-, on a list of horrendous parking offerings throughout the city.

Wrote contributor Eric Spiegelman: "Each Trader Joe's parking lot has at least two entrances that put the drivers who use one at loggerheads with the drivers using the other. Each has at least two separate zones of parking that look nothing like each other, connected in a string-of-pearls configuration with a single lane bottleneck connecting them. And each lot is notable for its massive size and inefficient allocation of spaces."

And after stopping by the lot myself on Monday, the conga line of cars pouring from the lot entrance onto Hyperion Avenue spoke for itself, as does the attached photo.

Click here to read the full Awl article.

Are there any other parking lots in Echo Park or Silver Lake that you think also deserve the lowest of grades? Tell is in the comments.