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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?

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Give the tram operator a high-vis vest for the invulnerability buff, a set of orange retractable belt stanchions to create an impermeable barrier for innocent passersby, and enough TNT to clear the obstruction. May need to mend the tracks a little depending on placement constraints but it'll solve the problem at 69 hectometers per second.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 12 points 1 week ago

Just fine those fuckers till the fuckers ain't fine.

[–] Ironfist79@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Tram should be allowed to ram them.

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[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

How can they install a track and not bother to paint a parking line on the road.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The amount of drives I've seen who are completely incapable of parking within generously sized painted parking spaces is genuinely concerning. You can even see in the above photo that it's parked over a foot away from the curb so the driver really parked like shit and some lines on the road probably wouldn't make any difference

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[–] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Show them some love (porcelain chunks), and word will spread.

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[–] veganpizza69@lemmy.vg 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

sabotage

the correct term here. If they don't understand parking, they should not have a driving license. If they do, it's intentional.

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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Riders should get out and kick in the windows, imo.

But seriously the city created this problem by not bumping out the curb to the area that shouldn't be parked in.

If you want to take things into your own hands: paint a no parking area on the ground there (diagonal lines in a box) and steal a no parking sign from elsewhere and plant it there if there's not already one so cops will ticket these people.

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[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Sounds like a good place to work as a tow truck operator.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You tow them and make the fine properly punitive. Even then it will still happen - cars parked in clearways here get towed all the time.

[–] Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 6 points 1 week ago

If I ran a tire company there, I'd follow the tram for easy catches. It so they not have "violators will be towed at owner's expense" rules over there?

[–] Bloefz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Whoa and that in Germany where people are pretty law-abiding.

[–] Pechente@feddit.org 6 points 1 week ago

Not when it comes to cars

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[–] Humana@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (5 children)

$/€100 fine that doubles every minute the tram is impeded.

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