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?
I agree personally but just ignoring the law doesn’t make it go away.
But campaigning to change the law to allow trams to strike illegally parked cars at the owners expense (including tram repairs) might change parking habits.
Yep, I’d put it like this:
the tram’s on fucking rails right? SO WE KNOW WHERE IT CAN GO, barring a derailment.
if you park close enough to the rails that the tram touches your shitbox, that’s on you lugnuts.
you could have parked anywhere, but no, you chose to park where the train goes.
Put a beefy metal prow on the front end, end of issues.
Exactly, plain an simple new law. Park on rails - > your car gets relocated by the tram in whatever direction it’s going, either until it’s squished or it’s out of the way.
The car getting pushed ran into others? Nice, the owner will pay for those as well.
You can’t teach these fuckwits to park properly without some force and punishment.
I like it.
ignoring the law is how any change happens, like queer people being in public