If cops were useful creatures that looks like a shit-ton of revenue just waiting to be generated for that city
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Make the bike lanes level with the sidewalk, jesus!
Oh hey, a second reason to carry a schrader valve tool in my bike storage! Time to give every car here a pair of flat left tires.
I see painted cycle lanes regularly being adopted by drivers as parking free here too 🙁 Unfortunately if people think they can get away with parking somewhere, they'll just do it.
Painting the road is not not enough when it comes to proper cycling infrastructure. The lanes need to be properly protected from the where the cars are and parking regulations need to be enforced properly as well. This includes people blocking good portion of a pavement with their car, another thing which is common here too 🙁
Call them in, parking patrol will be giddy writing all those tickets in a row.
Some cop could fill a quota real easy.
It's very rare I wish I was a cop... But I wish I was there, as a cop, going right down the line, tickets for everybody!
It's the kind of thing that makes me wish the police had an easy text line for reporting obvious violations like that. Seems like the kind of thing where you should be able to snap a photo of the vehicle, license plate and violation in one photo and text it off for an officer to look over and verify then write and mail a parking ticket. Best part is, it's a low risk enforcement, and if the law is written well enough it could be a net good in preventing parked cars from blocking shit without lending itself to over-enforcement
Seems like the kind of thing where you should be able to snap a photo of the vehicle, license plate and violation in one photo and text it off for an officer to look over and verify then write and mail a parking ticket.
That might have been cool 5 years ago ... but in the age of easily available AI photo generation/manipulation, this could be giving false reporters far too much power.
It's basically what New York City has been doing with some success already and there's been attempts to create a similar program for parking enforcement as well
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In the civilized Netherlands, parking in the bike lanes is a jackpot for the tow truck driver.
Are they parked or waiting to pick up kids from school? There is a lot of entitlement in a school pick up line. One driveway in my neighborhood has to have signs saying don’t block the driveway.
"School pick up line" is still one of the most American concepts I've heard of.
That was my guess, some is the most deranged driving and parking happens by schools, even high schools where the kids don't need anyone there to get them. They swarm in all around the block, as if there weren't a dozen other ways to get them home.
In most of the world even primary school kids walk home alone.
Or, gasp, take public transit.
I did, but I grew up in a town of 13,000 people with the school less than half a mile away. Most places in the US are too car centric and the schools too far away for kids to walk.
I live in a town about that size, and I'd estimate that over half of students get to/from school via their parents driving them. Which is insane because the way the buses are setup, your kids will just be picked up/dropped off from whatever the nearest school to your home is, so the parents spending multiple hours each day going to multiple schools to drop off then multiple schools to pick up could entirely avoid it
It's seriously the only real rush hour in my town is when school starts/ends
About the only edgecase I've seen with busing in my town is if you have multiple kids in school and one is special needs, because the special needs bus exclusively goes door to door and they don't let siblings ride with them unless the sibling is also special needs, so parents have to be in 2 places at once for both kids to take the bus
parents have to be in 2 places at once for both kids to take the bus
...Why does the non-special-needs child need a parent to wait with them? Are they prone to wandering into the street or something?
...because young kids are insane and constantly make poor choices when left to their own devices.
I don't think kids should walk to school independently until they're at least about 9 or 10. Before that point their decision making skills are simply not developed enough and their understanding of risk is basically non-existent. Is it probably fine at a younger age? Yeah, but it's not a risk worth taking, especially given how society at large generally considers all kids to require 24/7 parental monitoring even at ages where they should gain some independence
A real estate agent tried to sell me on not one but two houses which were directly across the street from a school.
I was like, "lol, no. In fact, no houses within a school zone."
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1-800-TOWTRUCK
won't let kids bike home from school because there's too much traffic
Apply "I park like I'm a piece of shit" stickers liberally.
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Alternatively, one of those emergency window breakers and just bike down the lane swinging
I guess parking tickets are not expensive enough in this village?
We need some kind of monster truck style bike that just patrols around and crushes these cars, and some dude riding it could say “HELL YEAH BROTHER” and other remarks of this nature.
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Looks suburban; I don't suppose the local law enforcement is supported by traffic and parking tickets? Just sayin, your incentives may align....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermite
Doesn't remove the cars, but sends a loud message.
Hate on cars all you want, and the idiocy that accompanies them, but please don't encourage setting things on fire in California, especially as they start to enter fire season. That's a good way to end up with massive, out of control fires that do billions in damage.
Just call a towtruck. They'll have a field day here.
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Sends a loud message
But... Thermite's not explosive? They probably won't hear it.
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Slap them with a bike chain.
I take it that parking rules are not really enforced in Moreno Valley, are they?
"We'll show them socialist bike riders! This is Murka! Don't it say in the Bible, the strong rule?"
Why isn't that curb red?? They only brought the green paint??
I honestly hate green bike lane paint. Make bike lanes fucking normal, stop spending extra money on a coating of slick paint that ironically lowers bike tire grip just to imply that they're some special unique infrastructure which the city has no real plan to commit to. Asphalt blacktop as the default road surface was standardized by cyclists, don't keep us from it!
I think it is less about "Look this is special" and more of a "Please don't drive full speed down this strip and kill someone"
Transportation planners should know better. Paint asks, concrete demands.
In my country we have red asphalt for bicycles lanes. Not asphalt with paint over it but, color mixed in with the asphalt.
And the green and blue many countries use for bicycle lanes is ugly as hell. The brownish brick red my country uses looks way better. Blends in with nature and the urban environment since it’s the color of brick.
Yeah if the dye is in the asphalt then that's fine, doesn't ruin the rolling properties. I wonder how that looks after it gets torn up and recycled (Old asphalt that gets torn up gets remixed and reused).
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