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If cops were useful creatures that looks like a shit-ton of revenue just waiting to be generated for that city
Make the bike lanes level with the sidewalk, jesus!
Oh hey, a second reason to carry a schrader valve tool in my bike storage! Time to give every car here a pair of flat left tires.
Call them in, parking patrol will be giddy writing all those tickets in a row.
“We’ll show them socialist bike riders! This is Murka! Don’t it say in the Bible, the strong rule?”
I see painted cycle lanes regularly being adopted by drivers as parking free here too 🙁 Unfortunately if people think they can get away with parking somewhere, they’ll just do it.
Painting the road is not not enough when it comes to proper cycling infrastructure. The lanes need to be properly protected from the where the cars are and parking regulations need to be enforced properly as well. This includes people blocking good portion of a pavement with their car, another thing which is common here too 🙁
In the civilized Netherlands, parking in the bike lanes is a jackpot for the tow truck driver.
1-800-TOWTRUCK
Looks suburban; I don’t suppose the local law enforcement is supported by traffic and parking tickets? Just sayin, your incentives may align…
Slap them with a bike chain.
Are they parked or waiting to pick up kids from school? There is a lot of entitlement in a school pick up line. One driveway in my neighborhood has to have signs saying don’t block the driveway.
“School pick up line” is still one of the most American concepts I’ve heard of.
A real estate agent tried to sell me on not one but two houses which were directly across the street from a school.
I was like, “lol, no. In fact, no houses within a school zone.”
That was my guess, some is the most deranged driving and parking happens by schools, even high schools where the kids don’t need anyone there to get them. They swarm in all around the block, as if there weren’t a dozen other ways to get them home.
In most of the world even primary school kids walk home alone.
Or, gasp, take public transit.
I did, but I grew up in a town of 13,000 people with the school less than half a mile away. Most places in the US are too car centric and the schools too far away for kids to walk.
I live in a town about that size, and I’d estimate that over half of students get to/from school via their parents driving them. Which is insane because the way the buses are setup, your kids will just be picked up/dropped off from whatever the nearest school to your home is, so the parents spending multiple hours each day going to multiple schools to drop off then multiple schools to pick up could entirely avoid it
It’s seriously the only real rush hour in my town is when school starts/ends
About the only edgecase I’ve seen with busing in my town is if you have multiple kids in school and one is special needs, because the special needs bus exclusively goes door to door and they don’t let siblings ride with them unless the sibling is also special needs, so parents have to be in 2 places at once for both kids to take the bus
parents have to be in 2 places at once for both kids to take the bus
…Why does the non-special-needs child need a parent to wait with them? Are they prone to wandering into the street or something?
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Alternatively, one of those emergency window breakers and just bike down the lane swinging
Some cop could fill a quota real easy.
It’s very rare I wish I was a cop… But I wish I was there, as a cop, going right down the line, tickets for everybody!
It’s the kind of thing that makes me wish the police had an easy text line for reporting obvious violations like that. Seems like the kind of thing where you should be able to snap a photo of the vehicle, license plate and violation in one photo and text it off for an officer to look over and verify then write and mail a parking ticket. Best part is, it’s a low risk enforcement, and if the law is written well enough it could be a net good in preventing parked cars from blocking shit without lending itself to over-enforcement
Seems like the kind of thing where you should be able to snap a photo of the vehicle, license plate and violation in one photo and text it off for an officer to look over and verify then write and mail a parking ticket.
That might have been cool 5 years ago … but in the age of easily available AI photo generation/manipulation, this could be giving false reporters far too much power.
Would be so satisfying!
I guess parking tickets are not expensive enough in this village?
Paint isn’t infrastructure, when will cities learn that?
Even paint could have prevented this.
Red.
On the curb.
There is a no parking sign. I don’t think a red curb will stop them
I think a lot of people who blow past a sign, and even ignore the green path, would see the red curb and realize they’ll get a ticket.
