The problem with the center parking i mentioned at the top of this thread...
.. is that it's accessible from both sides, meaning there's potential (though at low speed) for head-on's, plus, if you're driving forward to leave one, the sight lines are a little weird.
.. and that I feel like vehicles might have been shorter when this was set up originally. There's always giant trucks or SUV's that have their ass end poking out into the left lane. The same issues really apply with the side-of-street parking as well.
This part of town is on US 287, and the downtown area where this exists is pretty congested most of the time unless it's the middle of the night. People just plain don't look when backing out of these spaces. When driving through this area, you have to really be on guard for reverse lights.