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Pretty much every day someone parks their car on the tram tracks and blocks our city's tram network from operating
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This does unfortunately happen multiple times per day. Sometimes it’s smaller incidents where the tram driver can get out and collapse the car’s mirror. Other times the owner of the car comes out of a nearby house after the tram used its bell extensively (like today) and moves the car. And then there are times when police needs to get involved to tow the car which often takes upwards of 1 hour.
The truly infuriating part is that if the tram damages a poorly parked car, the transportation company will have to pay the damages. Poorly parked vehicles never get fined and the owners will only need to pay if the car ends up getting towed.
Why do we accept that drivers sabotage a city’s public transport infrastructure like this?
If you do that, you should loose your licence to drive.
Why? We can't tell how good or bad their driving is from this situation. But they should lose their license to park for sure.
So do they just have to hop out while it's rolling, or leave it in neutral and chock the tires?
They could have another driver take over to park. Like when the copilot flies the plane but the pilot takes over for takeoff and landing.
So they switch seats while the car is in motion?
Yeah or maybe the driver sits on the parker's lap and takes their hands off the wheel for that portion?
Yeah that'll work.