I quote from An Illustrated Guide to Relativity by Tatsu Takeuchi
Department of Physics, Virginia Tech
Pagq 146 6.5 What Lorentz contraction DOES NOT mean
"Now, just like time dilation, Lorentz contraction is often misunderstood to mean that space itself shrinks in the direction of motion in the moving frame, and consequently, spatial distances measured in the moving frame will always bi longer (since they are using a shorter ruler) than in the stationary frame.