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?
This is why buses are superior to trams.
Trams seem like a nice idea at first, higher capacity and more environmentally friendly and all that.
But trams operate in cities. Cities are full of cars. And most cars are driven by assholes chuck.
And when you’re confined to tracks in a city full of cars driven by assholes that’s what you get.
"This is why having a son is better than having a daughter.
Daughters seem like a nice idea at first, they are cute and funny and all that.
But daughters eventually will go into cities. Cities are full of men. And most men are assholes.
And when you’re a woman in a city full of men that are assholes that’s what you get."
Thank you for that deep analysis, and for putting the blame where it should be.
I thought the gif would negate the need for a /s but i guess not.
I can’t see any gif, just an image.