That particular restaurant has a larger parking lot than most restaurants its size due to its location literally adjacent to the interstate highway. The nearby

That particular restaurant has a larger parking lot than most restaurants its size due to its location literally adjacent to the interstate highway. The nearby road is an artery that connects to the interstate; most roads are not the 5-total-lane configuration (though that is indeed the most common configuration for major thoroughfares). A fair comparison to tptacek's example of Chicago residential streets would be more like: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.1148295,-88.2320852,3a,75y,168.22h,80.92t/data=!3m9!1e1!3m7!1sc0GyYiEhNZ6AKzw6JJN6Cg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!9m2!1b1!2i39 https://www.google.com/maps/@40.1148295,-88.2320852,3a,75y,1... or perhaps https://www.google.com/maps/@40.1114168,-88.2121028,3a,75y,252.43h,85.2t/data=!3m9!1e1!3m7!1sRlTp-NYwmsl1ScLc14l43w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!9m2!1b1!2i39 https://www.google.com/maps/@40.1114168,-88.2121028,3a,75y,2... Or a look at the dense commercial zone supported by the University of Illinois campus: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.1102513,-88.2296903,3a,75y,49.19h,88.32t/data=!3m9!1e1!3m7!1szRord1c3qK3BcmIC_Mkfow!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!9m2!1b1!2i39 https://www.google.com/maps/@40.1102513,-88.2296903,3a,75y,4... That said, SUVs are now more purchased than sedans, and scenes like https://www.google.com/maps/@40.1102414,-88.230319,3a,15y,344.14h,83.4t/data=!3m9!1e1!3m7!1swpvCLaiqn-T5Z_lKpgkEhg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!9m2!1b1!2i39 https://www.google.com/maps/@40.1102414,-88.230319,3a,15y,34... are the norm. The prevalence of busses in street views of Urbana should also be considered unusual. Because of the university, Champaign-Urbana has an exceptional (for the US) bus service. It only takes 30 minutes to travel 3 miles (5 km), with only a 30 minute wait between pickups: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Springfield+%26+Kenwood+(SE+Corner),+Champaign,+IL+61821/Thomas+M.+Siebel+Center+for+Computer+Science,+North+Goodwin+Avenue,+Urbana,+IL/@40.1210778,-88.2787187,13.58z/data=!3m1!5s0x880cd76a5762dfb7:0xcf6a023935717398!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x880cd0600d84d8e1:0x4a622c7e9208cc43!2m2!1d-88.2859732!2d40.112605!1m5!1m1!1s0x880cd76baa8479a9:0x4e9f01d40d359630!2m2!1d-88.2249052!2d40.1138028!3e3 https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Springfield+%26+Kenwood+(SE+... Regarding parking lots, everything from https://www.google.com/maps/@40.1172443,-88.205592,3a,75y,313.62h,76.38t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sqNWeQ0jL_7IEuJA5gDd_JQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 https://www.google.com/maps/@40.1172443,-88.205592,3a,75y,31... to more dense 'downtown' areas like https://www.google.com/maps/@40.1177271,-88.2417685,3a,75y,145.54h,80.13t/data=!3m9!1e1!3m7!1st2yPoKCN4KYo1JxNp8KKaQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!9m2!1b1!2i39 https://www.google.com/maps/@40.1177271,-88.2417685,3a,75y,1... are typical.