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