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I’ve never experienced this in my country (Sweden) but that has no effect on my agreement with this community.
Don’t forget your keys! And hold them in your hand as you closely walk around these obstacles.
Great way to have your car used as a parkour obstacle!
I feel like I also see a lot of cars parked in taxi stands and loading zones, which leads me to think car owners don’t think about anyone else, including other car drivers. Taxi stands are at their core congestion relief because the alternative is double parking and hunting for free kerb space. Its almost always big trucks too. I wonder why.
Usually loading zones have a timeframe. In that time, it is a loading zone. Outside of it it’s regular parking. That’s why you often see cars parked at loading zones. As long as they move the car before it becomes a loading zone again, they’re using it as intended.
My neighborhood has good parking but people still feel the need to back aalllll the way in to the spot, putting their trunk well over the sidewalk. It’s annoying because the road has plenty of space and we have speed bumps through out the neighborhood so the fear of their car being hit is so minimal.
I have the opposite. My parking lot is so small that if one set of your wheels aren’t on the sidewalk, your car is sticking halfway out to the other side.
I can’t fucking wait to move into the city so I can walk and use public transport and not be so reliant on this fucking thing
So you walk in the street, and then get yelled at.
Thanks, exactly this. Dont be afraid to do property damage as a pedestrian.
Tell me a story about the US without telling me it’s about the US.
This could easily be in Australia too.
Carbrains are stupid everywhere.
I have seen this shit quite a lot in cities regardless of country but yeah that’s the US lol.
Sure happens in more places but afaik there aren’t many other places where the police cares that little. Maybe in the city, but not in suburbs at least.
This happens all over the UK too. In the area I live, it’s not uncommon for people to park their entire car on the footpath.
it just needs to be made illegal country wide amd enforced with fines. The council by council rule changes on curb parking is confusing. As for those who will complain that there isn’t enough room for parking on both sides of the road, tough shit
Just this afternoon I saw a guy park across a dropped kerb, jump out of his car and walk off. So my partner had to roll their chair further down the road in order to cross.
I’m also in the UK.
Scratch the shit out of the car. Take a photo and license plate. Go to cops, say it was parkd across the footpath and you damaged it wirh your chair and feel bad about it.
Cops will fine it and since the damage is on record due to driver illegality insurance won’t cover repairs.
Honestly I would say parking on the sidewalk is actually more common in Europe than in the US. But obviously depends on the local area as much as anything.
Exactly, I‘m German and it happens here a lot. My street is particularly bad because there’s not enough street parking - which would be a good thing if they actually punished people parking on the sidewalk.
Yeah I think this is the reason. There is so much parking and road space available in the US that there’s almost never any incentive to park on the sidewalk.
I’ve probably never been there, but I bet there’s enough, or even more then enough, street parking. But it’s way too many cars.
There would be if every vehicle wasn’t a small tank, and cities so poorly designed that everyone always drives everywhere.
For it to be the US, there wouldn’t be a sidewalk
yeah also because we have much more sidewalk than in the US
I think it’s also because the US is obsessed with parking and wide roads so there’s rarely an incentive to park on the sidewalk. Plenty of space elsewhere designated to that purpose.
“Here in Houston, walking is considered an extreme sport” - random youtuber
Douchebags.
Douchebags, everywhere!
Ontario, Canada here: A bunch of subdivisions built here since the 80’s have either no sidewalks, or sidewalks on one side only, but the roads are at least 3.5 car widths wide…fuck cars.
I really appreciate living in my neighborhood which has great access to public transportation! But you know what really grinds my gears; oh there is no bus at the moment let park here real quick. And then guess what the bus comes and now the bus riders have to bare the nuisance. Or even the morons who park over night like the one pictured above, blocking the sidewalk path.
I live near a town that has a trolley that runs down the middle of the main (2-lane) street. Because the street has parking on both sides, cars can’t get past the trolley in either direction, so you frequently get the hilarity of multiple cars trying to back out of its way to the nearest intersection. But at rush times the parking spots are all full and you get multiple idiots double-parking, which just jams up the entire town. Like, how fucking stupid do you have to be to park on shiny railroad tracks?
In My country, parking next to a bus stop is illegal and will get you towed.
In my country, the police don’t do anything. It’s up to the community to put a rock through the windshield
In my country, I assume the police are just answering stupid calls and driving around and not taking cats off of tree branches either.
Transit drivers should be allowed to photograph the offender and send the plates to the DMV for a fine if the vehicle does not move in 30 seconds after the bus arrives. And the fine should be $100 for 1st offense, $250 next, $500 third.
Transit drivers should be allowed to bulldoze them out of the way
I’m a school bus driver. We are actually trained to push cars the fuck out of the way if they block us from completing a railroad track crossing. I actually ran into this situation my first day of driving training – I stopped before the tracks, put my emergency blinkers on and opened my door, and a car behind me passed me (which is illegal) and then got stuck on the tracks behind another car. My trainer was like 'GO! HIT HIM!" but I couldn’t do it. He was really pissed at me.
500 is way too low. They are blocking critical infrastructure. Should be a 1% of pre-tax monthly income per minute imo
Bring your keys
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