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?
Usually because otherwise there wouldn’t be much space left for parking at all.
In some places, these trams are gonna run through every major route, leaving no room for parking on smaller streets, and barely any parking that isn’t next to tram rails on larger streets.
If you want to have both trams and cars, then depending on the city, you might have no choice but to put parking spots there given the size of the inner-city roads.