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?

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    16 days ago

    I assume the spot is clearly labeled for no parking? Just station a tow truck by the offending spot. Someone parks there they get an insta-tow. Word will get around quick enough.

    • AlphaOmega@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      16 days ago

      Yeah tow truckers live for this sort of gig, multiple tows per day, while basically hanging out

      • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        16 days ago

        That’s only in countries where tow trucking of irregularly parked cars has been privatised.

        In my own home country - Portugal - it has to be a police tow truck, so parking is naturally a complete total shit show (for example: parking on top of sidewalks is, literally and with no exageration, the norm).

    • JASN_DE@feddit.orgEnglish
      15·
      16 days ago

      That’s not how this works in Germany. You cannot simply tow cars as you please as a tow truck operator, you need to be called in by the police.

      • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        3·
        16 days ago

        then maybe Germany should change its laws to be similar to the one in Austria, where § 89a (3) StVO specifically allows “railway enterprises” (trams are railways) to remove obstacles from the road

      • mcv@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        16 days ago

        Then have police check these locations regularly for cars obstructing the tram.

    • Pechente@feddit.orgOPEnglish
      151·
      16 days ago

      Nope, this is an official parking spot. The guy just parked recklessly and is sticking out too much. But of course you need to have parking spots in this street as to not inconvenience drivers one bit.

    • psx_crab@lemmy.zipEnglish
      6·
      16 days ago

      Or the city can tow car preemptively if they park in illegal spot, doesn’t need to wait till the tram is there.