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Pretty much every day someone parks their car on the tram tracks and blocks our city's tram network from operating
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This does unfortunately happen multiple times per day. Sometimes it’s smaller incidents where the tram driver can get out and collapse the car’s mirror. Other times the owner of the car comes out of a nearby house after the tram used its bell extensively (like today) and moves the car. And then there are times when police needs to get involved to tow the car which often takes upwards of 1 hour.
The truly infuriating part is that if the tram damages a poorly parked car, the transportation company will have to pay the damages. Poorly parked vehicles never get fined and the owners will only need to pay if the car ends up getting towed.
Why do we accept that drivers sabotage a city’s public transport infrastructure like this?
Having visited Munich I don't doubt your frustration but by god I'd kill to have that public transport. You even had a lot of bike lanes.
Yes, it's there and mostly OK. But:
What I am trying to say is if you need to be reliable (and who doesn't?) you still need to have a car or motorcycle to use ad-hoc. And it'll be cheaper. And also, depending on route, yes but still - often quicker. Although there will be people saying their route is fine and this all looks made up I am speaking from decades of living here now and once you have to change vehicle in public transport it will be an issue to do that daily.
We really need to get rid of BMW commuting with their >6000 (?) cars daily and bump the already (in winter totally) overcrowded public transport.
Did I mention that I had lots of infections when I commuted by public transport?
Disclaimer: all of this is firsthand experience and I subjectively have nothing against BMW or the public transport in general.