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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?
This is the way. Its like how fireman handle someone parking in front of a hydrant. They go through the car with fire axes. The persons doing it deserve it.
Here in Europe it's very hard to see hydrants though. There are no signs and they're just little panel-covered holes.
There are signs in Germany, but most people can't really read them.
4.5m to the right 3.5m in front of the sign is a hydrant. And the line is 100mm in diameter
Thanks!! I have seen those signs but I never realised what they were about. I thought it was rather some kind of tag for those people that do street measurements with those sextant-like things on a tripod. We have those big crosses on the ground for that too, that can be viewed from the air.
I think I've seen these signs in Holland too. Huh.
But I don't think it's an issue to park near such a hydrant, otherwise they'd make it more clear in the driving education. The only reason I knew the ground hydrants even existed was because once I called about a trash bin fire and I saw them using it.