City could make some $$$ actually writing some tickets. Laws have no meaning without enforcement.

Put a key in your hand and extend it out in any direction. If the car is in the bike lane. Scratch the ever loving fuck out of the car. Problem solved. They’ll move the cars for sure.

That could be a lot of flat tires and broken windows if any random person had the will to do it.

Wild.

The city where I live employs private tow truck operators to remove cars illegally parked. They swoop in like vulchers and take cars away within minutes.

Hefty fine to get it back too.

All of these vehicles can be reported for illegal parking on NYC311. It's a bit of a pain to do but from what I've heard they're acting on reports much faster than they used to lately.

This is a protest by those car dealerships against that bike lane. The bike lane is less than 10 years old and was hard-fought for by the de Blasio administration against the dealerships in this section of queens. After the lane went in the dealerships started parking their cars on the public sidewalks and encroaching into the bike lane as much as they could just to be assholes. The cops of course cannot be convinced to do jack shit about it.

Normally I would say just ticket all those poorly-parked cars and raise a buttload of revenue for the city...but in the capitalist hellscape we find ourselves in the car dealership would just give a donation (or threaten to withhold one) from some elected official and the tickets would "magically" disappear.

Another company who has a tow truck might be really happy to know how many of those cars are parked illegally. Find the scummiest one you can too.

Yeah, it's insane how entitled people get about using public spaces to store their private metal boxes just because the boxes have wheels.

If that were to happen here. You would be able to hear the entire city celebrating from the next town over as their entire budget for the next year will be covered entirely from parking tickets.

You can't talk about cars in NYC without talking about Robert Moses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses

He was head of dozens of government offices and manipulated the entire tri-state area for decades.

He hated any form of mass transit. He made sure that the bridges on the Long Island Expressway were too low for buses.

Just start keying the shit out of these cars.

Im surprised you didn't crash into every vehicle encroaching the bike lane.

At the very least you could've dragged a handle bar down the sides. Maybe a brake lever.

Have they actually parked on the bike lane? It'd be too bad if a handlebar accidentally scratched them. I used to work close to a dealership and they had taken the whole sidewalk around their building with cars. Someone parked a bicycle on that sidewalk once. They were asked to move it.

Jfc, why does the bike lane cross the street like that? It looks super unsafe

That merge point with the bike lane crossing the street has me sketched out. Merging vehicles trying to see past all the parked cars for oncoming traffic, bikes coming up parallel to cross, from behind traffic's blind spot. Tragedy just waiting to happen.

Would sure be a shame if a pedestrian with a stroller or wagon walking down the sidewalk accidentally scratched the fuck out of them

Holy shit that's bad. And I thought it was wasteful when some car-stores popped up close-by me in a mid-sized Finnish city, and what they built on was unused fields before. Still I can't understand how it's profitable to rent that much, surely people aren't buying cars that often. But I guess it has to be profitable, since we're in capitalism.

Just how is a mystery to me.

Also your bike-infra kinda sucks. I'm happy to see it exists, but... for your sake I'd hope it'd be improved. Like maybe set up lights for the bike crossing so you don't have to rely on people's good will not to get driven over.

Im unusual in that im not anti car parking. Part of this is I have a wife that I can get to use the car far less with my influence but I can't get her to be ok with not having one. With the right living arrangement Im 100% I could get her and thus us to be driving down to once a month but it would require being closer into the city with a garagaed spot to store the car. That is to expensive though so we are out in the burbs and the car gets drivin multi times a week oftentimes and at least once. I really would like to reduce that. car dealerships are bullshit though and storing cars a big chunk of their costs so putting cars anywhere but property they actually own is theft on their part.

Cars getting scratches is unavoidable at this point

Another great example why bike lanes need to be separated and protected by structures

Just roll down with a can of spray paint

That's just a residential Chicago neighborhood.

My hometown has a kenworth plant

Kenworth has a bad habit of putting huge parking lots for their truck everywhere they can, and then leaving them unattended for months on end.

Kenworth learned the hard way that they need to keep better control over where they leave their shit, otherwise people who have a reason to hate them (which is a lot of people around there) might fuck with their trucks and cause millions in damages.

Should cut down a safety window breaker to be glued onto the knuckles of a bike glove and just.. roll down the street popping windows.