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’m surprised it’s not possible for the tram company to sue them for the full costs of the delay: that being a tram line hence the trams not being able to pass a stuck tram, this would add up to just about all the losses of all trams stuck due to this.
Something based on the average ticket price per-passenger, the average number of passengers taken in during such a time period in those lines were the trains were stuck and the length of time period of the stoppage, would add up to way more that €15.