It must have been a very slow week for Lee Cataluna for the column to be about parking — and to be so wrong that it could be called a “fake opinion column” (“Taking a long time to park in exchange for a quick exit,” Star-Advertiser, March 22).

Back-in or drive-through parking is nearly unanimously considered by traffic experts to be the safer of all alternatives.

PHH Arval Research, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, National Highway Safety Administration and AAA all have concluded through rigorous research that reverse parking avoids backing out blindly into oncoming traffic or into the path of pedestrians. Most major corporations spend a lot of money and resources training their employees accordingly.

Cataluna got this completely wrong.

Note to pedestrians: Parking lots are not walking lots, sidewalks, strolling areas, or smartphone reading zones. Thus the name: “parking lots.”

Pedestrians should pay attention as they also are responsible for where they are.

Joel Brilliant

Hawaii Kai

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