Can we get that for reporting cars parked in bus and tramway lanes?
this post was submitted on 24 Jun 2025
796 points (98.4% liked)
Fuck Cars
12296 readers
1531 users here now
A place to discuss problems of car centric infrastructure or how it hurts us all. Let's explore the bad world of Cars!
Rules
1. Be Civil
You may not agree on ideas, but please do not be needlessly rude or insulting to other people in this community.
2. No hate speech
Don't discriminate or disparage people on the basis of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, or sexuality.
3. Don't harass people
Don't follow people you disagree with into multiple threads or into PMs to insult, disparage, or otherwise attack them. And certainly don't doxx any non-public figures.
4. Stay on topic
This community is about cars, their externalities in society, car-dependency, and solutions to these.
5. No reposts
Do not repost content that has already been posted in this community.
Moderator discretion will be used to judge reports with regard to the above rules.
Posting Guidelines
In the absence of a flair system on lemmy yet, let’s try to make it easier to scan through posts by type in here by using tags:
- [meta] for discussions/suggestions about this community itself
- [article] for news articles
- [blog] for any blog-style content
- [video] for video resources
- [academic] for academic studies and sources
- [discussion] for text post questions, rants, and/or discussions
- [meme] for memes
- [image] for any non-meme images
- [misc] for anything that doesn’t fall cleanly into any of the other categories
Recommended communities:
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
And bike lanes.
$1, $5,$3, $7, $4 and $2!
Jokes aside, this is a pretty rad program.
Under the Citizens Air Complaint Program, they can record idling trucks or buses, report them and keep 25% of any fines, which typically range from $350 to $600.
Even if you aren't doing it 6-9 hours a day like this guy is, getting a cool $75-$150 for making a report while out of the house anyway doesn't sound bad at all.
Snitches get riches.
I'm cool with people snitching on someone pouring greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere.
So am I. If I wasn't, I'd have written "stitches" instead of "riches".
load more comments
(4 replies)
Idling is illegal here often but I see vehicles doing it all the time. Would love if a scheme like this existed in the UK
It also depends if they want to enforce it.
A lot of things are illegal to do in the US but ignored, but someone has to actively enforce it. Which is a police problem on its own.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Every city should do this.
Not sure why the meter maids aren’t doing this instead of turning the people against each other
Where I grew up, meter checkers were getting threatened with assault for writing up parking tickets.
The current city I'm in, the meter checkers never leave their cars. They take a photo of the offense, and mail their tickets.