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?
Slap a cow catcher on the front of those trams and blast those mfers out of the way. Park on the tracks at your own risk assholes.
How can they install a track and not bother to paint a parking line on the road.
The amount of drives I’ve seen who are completely incapable of parking within generously sized painted parking spaces is genuinely concerning. You can even see in the above photo that it’s parked over a foot away from the curb so the driver really parked like shit and some lines on the road probably wouldn’t make any difference
The fact is, most people shouldn’t be driving. That’s not an individual criticism its an objective condition.
Which is why we need trains and hi quality public transit!
The fact that the drivers aren’t fined is what’s most wild to me. Where I live they fine the everliving fuck out of you if you park somewhere you’re not supposed to.
This right here is the answer. These car drivers need absolutely punishing fines if they get in the way of the tram.
Riders should get out and kick in the windows, imo.
But seriously the city created this problem by not bumping out the curb to the area that shouldn’t be parked in.
If you want to take things into your own hands: paint a no parking area on the ground there (dashed lines in a box) and steal a no parking sign from elsewhere and plant it there if there’s not already one so cops will ticket these people.
And keep a tow truck on call until the rules stick.
People keep doing it because they get away with it.
Put a cow-catcher on the front, like the old-timey trains, and roll those cars out of the way. Make sure that it gets covered heavily in the media, with cars left on their sides and roofs.
The scofflaws will get the message really quick, and stop it.
Can’t spell Tram without Ram.
While I wholeheartedly agree with you, the first pedestrian to step in front of one of those things is going to have a very bad day™.
Fun fact, old interurban cars in the states had a mechanism on the front that looked like a bed frame that would scoop up any pedestrians on the road and prevent the car from running over them. Some even placed this under the tram but before the drive train so they could still be coupled together as needed but still not kill innattentive pedestrians
This video kinda shows a few designs but I’m not immediately finding the under train ones I’ve seen on cars at the Illinois Railway Museum. I learned from a volunteer at the Orange Empire Railway Museum that they were more commonly actually used for scooping passed out drunks off the right of way
This is the way. Its like how fireman handle someone parking in front of a hydrant. They go through the car with fire axes. The persons doing it deserve it.
I was gonna say: the tram needs a ram.
Trams should operate on fire truck rules.
You don’t need a fine, per se, you just get billed for the repairs after it rams your vehicle out of the way.
sabotage
the correct term here. If they don’t understand parking, they should not have a driving license. If they do, it’s intentional.
Sounds like a good place to work as a tow truck operator.
Everybody here is suggesting the train rams the car, but it’s liable for damages.
Who knows who flipped that car though. Some guys who left?
Where i like there was a time the police would routinely drive main routes of public transit along with the (pubic-ish) transit company - same car even - and flag cars for towing.
Haven’t seen many cars requiring towing since, but it does still happen from time to time.needs more of this
If you do that, you should loose your licence to drive.
Why? We can’t tell how good or bad their driving is from this situation. But they should lose their license to park for sure.
Lose their license to park? Ok clanker
If you park like this, you obviously have not the mental capacity to handle a car.
Gotta fine that shit, that is unacceptable, wtf. Weak af.
In Vienna, over the last decade the authorities have removed hundreds of parking spots like this where cars repeatedly blocked the tram. Now, the number of times it happens is very low, since the spots that remain should be very easy to Park in a way that doesnt block
According to my social media feed from yesterday everyone in Vienna has to park like this
“Wild car spotted drinking water from a canal”
~ source National Geographic
$/€100 fine that doubles every minute the tram is impeded.
Scale it to personal wealth
0.1% yearly income, doubling each minute.
3.2% after 5 minutes. 102.4% after 10 minutes.
Exponential growth is a motherfucker.
You absolutely did and I admire that, apologies for inadvertantly giving the owning class an out. Wealth it is!
