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Most of our parking spaces tend to be either 2.4 x 4.8m. Sometimes they are slightly bigger, at 2.5 x 5m, but in a country where space is tight, most are 2.4 x 4.8. Our standard residential streets are generally 5.5m wide, which means that a standard residential single carriageway width is 2.75m.
A typical two-car driveway is 16 feet wide and 38 feet long without curves or slope, for a total surface area of 610 square feet or 68 square yards. Excavation by hand of sub-grade average type soil is $50 per cubic yard ($325 this example) using hand tools and dispersing soil in the local area.