If you read the general internet it's all mobbed up guys stealing cars from law-abiding single mothers for no reason at all but then again if I believed the general public about parking violation enforcement here in germany I'd come to the conclusion they're the new jews.

So how bad is that whole privatized towing / enforcement thing, really? Is there an actual problem beyond "it's a private company" or is it mostly carbrain tears?

  • ped_xing [he/him]
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    6 months ago

    If parking in the bike lane means the city sends somebody out with heavy equipment to find a legal spot for you, of course drivers will abuse that. You'd find that abhorrent if it were a service sold to rich assholes, so how is it at all appropriate to open it up to everyone and leave bike lanes permanently clogged with people taking advantage of free asshole parking?

      • ped_xing [he/him]
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        6 months ago

        Your everywhere-is-free-parking service is incompatible with crosswalks and bike lanes and sidewalks. You've outflanked Musk on carbrain and call others reactionary.

        • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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          6 months ago

          you are just a "but but the welfare queens will steal all the groceries with their food stamps and sell them for crack" crank who hates poor people who serve you. If you find your views aligning with Musk and communists mocking you for being a reactionary, maybe have some introspection of your heinous ass opinion

          • ped_xing [he/him]
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            6 months ago

            This isn't a fabricated concern. Our bike lanes are regularly blocked by cars. If you lower the price of blocking the bike lane to $0, people will do that more. The poorest people, by the way, don't have cars and are also inconvenienced by cars on the crosswalk, bike lane and sidewalk. But fuck them, right?

              • ped_xing [he/him]
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                6 months ago

                Let's try it this way - do you want your park-wherever policy applied to driving lanes? You get to where you want, hop out of your car and leave it there. The city sends out a tow to get your car to a legal spot at no cost to you. Yay/nay?

                  • ped_xing [he/him]
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                    6 months ago

                    If there's one poor person in the city, sure, let them block the sidewalk, the crosswalk and hell, the driving lanes until we lift them out of poverty. But there are multiple poor people. One blocking the road or the sidewalk punishes all the others who want to drive or walk on that street. Why are you privileging the one in the car over the rest?