20 minutes ago I passed an access-a-ride mini bus (Run by the public transit agency) parked in the curb bike lane with it's blinkers on in front of an apartment building. A building with over 40 units, an open air parking lot, and a lavish back driveway with full entry on the opposite side of the block. It would have been far more convenient for the bus driver, the person being picked up, and every endangered passing cyclist and driver for them to pick up their passenger in the designated passenger pickup area but no, there is a bike lane that isn't yet being blocked and so that is where the bus must be.

I wanted to cut the bus driver some slack and complain that municipalities don't do enough to provide loading / unloading curb cuts but I can't even do that when there's a huge-ass driveway taking up a third of the property already and they're not even using it.

Door dashers and Uber eats are the worst in my experience.

Total disregard for any traffic rules, they just straight up park their cars in the middle of a lane outside of the restaurant and leave their cars sitting there while they go inside.

Food delivery gig services are an absolute blight and should be completely illegal imo.

I hate the other side of this too. People will park outside my house at 11pm on a residential side street and turn the flashes on, interrupting my nice peaceful reading session at the window.

like, there's no need to turn them. just fucking don't press the button. you're parked on the side of the street just like every other fucking car here, and your lights are already on. you don't need to be annoying.

Some scumbags in my town apparently think that "FIRE ZONE" means "entitled asshole parking" in French.

I love the people who pull into a normal ass parallel parking spot and put on their flashers.

One, you can just stop or park there. It’s fine.

Two, now it looks to everyone on the road that you’re signaling left to pull into the road because the parked car behind you blocks the view of the right flasher.

North Americans don't know what hazard lights are for, it's not taught in driving schools and no one uses them properly.

I used to see this all the time in the UK outside high street fast food shops. Some idiot would just stop in the middle of the road, chuck their hazards on and piss off into KFC to gorge themselves on chicken for half an hour while traffic banedk up behind their car. British people love a queue though so I guess everyone was winning ..

Half of the problems people have with cars would be solved if humans could be a scintilla more aware of others.

But that will never happen so outlaw cars.

Who's out here taking pictures of my father-in-law?!

It is for me

I see this constantly during the week (remote worker) when I walk my dogs. It’ll be Tuesday afternoon with unlimited street parking and everyone on the planet suddenly needs to stop abruptly right in the middle of the fucking road.

Lol I literally remarked about that earlier in another thread, but now we can really rant.

Is this fairly universal in all cities? Here in LA it's almost every block on the westside but less so elsewhere. Visiting people in Santa Monica I even ran into two double parkers across from each other and couldn't even pass. Lol

My stupid ass city let's morons park in bike lanes as long as they have that little light flickering there. It's like a cheat code.

There even is a whole community about exposing people who park without using that button, check out !youcantparktheremate@feddit.uk.

I mean, these are ment to imply that you have become a hazard and stopping in the middle of the road do be pretty hazardous.

Legitimate reasons to use it imo is If you're gonna be stopped for less then a minute on the side of a road, otherwise find a park, if you need to stop and not somewhere you can park, get as far off the road as you can (ie shoulder of a freeway) or if you actually are in an emergency and need to stop, e.g. you're car is suddenly externally combusting

If someone parks illegally it should become public property. It's yours now. Do what you want to it.

Meh.

At least they're using their hazards. Most car brains don't even bother.

Also I don't really mind cars blocking traffic if they're using hazards. It's usually safer for bikers and pedestrians.

I thought those were the alert for the parking warden to come and see of you need a ticket for your illegal parking.

Saw this when travelling in Greece for the first time. As a pedestrian I thought it was a funny cultural quirk. I've never come across it on Canada's W. Coast.