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I really appreciate living in my neighborhood which has great access to public transportation! But you know what really grinds my gears; oh there is no bus at the moment let park here real quick. And then guess what the bus comes and now the bus riders have to bare the nuisance. Or even the morons who park over night like the one pictured above, blocking the sidewalk path.
I live near a town that has a trolley that runs down the middle of the main (2-lane) street. Because the street has parking on both sides, cars can't get past the trolley in either direction, so you frequently get the hilarity of multiple cars trying to back out of its way to the nearest intersection. But at rush times the parking spots are all full and you get multiple idiots double-parking, which just jams up the entire town. Like, how fucking stupid do you have to be to park on shiny railroad tracks?
In My country, parking next to a bus stop is illegal and will get you towed.
In my country, the police don't do anything. It's up to the community to put a rock through the windshield
In my country, I assume the police are just answering stupid calls and driving around and not taking cats off of tree branches either.
Transit drivers should be allowed to photograph the offender and send the plates to the DMV for a fine if the vehicle does not move in 30 seconds after the bus arrives. And the fine should be $100 for 1st offense, $250 next, $500 third.
Transit drivers should be allowed to bulldoze them out of the way
I'm a school bus driver. We are actually trained to push cars the fuck out of the way if they block us from completing a railroad track crossing. I actually ran into this situation my first day of driving training -- I stopped before the tracks, put my emergency blinkers on and opened my door, and a car behind me passed me (which is illegal) and then got stuck on the tracks behind another car. My trainer was like 'GO! HIT HIM!" but I couldn't do it. He was really pissed at me.
500 is way too low. They are blocking critical infrastructure. Should be a 1% of pre-tax monthly income per minute imo