The phrase "parking strips" is correct and can be used in written English.
It generally refers to designated areas along the side of a road or in a parking lot where cars can be parked in a straight line. Example: The city council is planning to install new parking strips along Main Street to alleviate the parking shortage in the downtown area.
His designs — on patios, garden paths, parking strips, serpentine walls, steps and fountains — range from abstract to representative.
With parking strips sprouting raised beds, productive gardens replacing lawns, and even a "dating" service called Urban Garden Share that matches up landless gardeners with those willing to share, Seattle has taken Michelle Obama's message of grow your own to heart.
Yet there are plenty of other labels listed in the Dictionary of American Regional English: a median strip, a parking strip, a terrace, a boulevard.
The gravel parking strip was nearly empty; it was four o'clock on a Monday afternoon, with three weeks still to go until Halloween.
A third of the street was blocked off to form the line, though puzzlingly, the entire sidewalk and parking strip was blocked off as well and inaccessible to us.
Again, I was not injured, and was thrown onto the parking strip instead of onto the busy street.
His exotic frontyard and parking strip stand out in his bucolic Burbank neighborhood where most of the homes are fronted by compact green — and brown — lawns.
In stories about a Pacific Beach parking strip, reporter Adam Z. Horvath has written that "one of the last stretches of oceanfront parking" will soon be replaced ("Coast Panel Endorses Park for P.B. Waterfront," July 24).
There is a very wide parking strip on the south side of Pearl between 17th Street and the college parking lot that might be used for a few more spaces, but both would be a drop in the bucket.
But if you need to know how to tend the Rhaphiolepis indica in your parking strip or foil the aphids on your roses, this is the place to look.
Last year, hundreds of farmers and their wives pitched tents on park strips along the Reforma.
