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?

  • Gladaed@feddit.orgEnglish
    71·
    21 hours ago

    That’s a whole lot of money. A single infraction should not financially ruin a person. There is no good way out.

    • Kilgore Trout@feddit.itEnglish
      6·
      20 hours ago

      Why not? You’d better not commit the infraction then. You are actively damaging all of the tram passengers.

      • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
        6·
        17 hours ago

        People do have bad days where they’re not fully involved in what they’re doing.

        A small pinch might work better to rectify that behaviour than a noose around their neck

      • Gladaed@feddit.orgEnglish
        53·
        19 hours ago

        Because there is no opportunity for betterment. You don’t deserve to lose your life for that.

          • Gladaed@feddit.orgEnglish
            6·
            17 hours ago

            You asked for the punishment to be substantially larger. Also if you are poor this may sink you. Not everybody has 1.5 grand each month to spend on extra stuff.

    • Pechente@feddit.orgOPEnglish
      2·
      21 hours ago

      Yes, the infrastructure should be better in the first place, i.e. do not have parking spots there. But I guess the whole reason these parking spots are there is because people would just park there regardless if there are parking spots or not and if there weren’t parking spots and people still parked illegally, they should absolutely cover the damages they caused. Keep in mind, that 2 ½ hours was the longest recent delay which caused whole chunks of the city center to be inaccessible.

      One of the biggest issue with cars is that as a society we are subsidizing their external costs way too much. Owning a car entails a lot of responsibility and yet most people operate it with very little regard for their surroundings.