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submitted 5 months ago by danielquinn@lemmy.ca to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/33126960

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[-] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 8 points 5 months ago

I have to deal with similar issues in my neighbourhood; any service vehicle will have to block the bike lane because that houses driveway is already full of vehicle.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

Service vehicle never "have" to block the bike lane. They could simply block the general purpose lane instead.

In other words, they are making a deliberate choice to fuck cyclists' safety in order to prioritize convenience for car drivers.

[-] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

I think you're attributing malice to laziness.

I cant think of a single courier or delivery driver that would actively think "let me take an extra 20 seconds to reverse into this driveway just to fuck with bikes". They just want to get it done and get to the next

[-] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

it would be far easier to simply stop in the lane they are already in. No, they go out of their way to park in the bike lane.

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[-] VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 months ago

Delivery trucks, full stop, around here. Though some stop on the street instead, which I prefer, but car drivers usually don't.

In the end, I find it hard to be angry at overworked, underpaid people, who have to work around infrastructure that clearly hasn't been planned with their job in mind.

At least UPS is switching to large bike-like vehicles around here. Hope that trend continues.

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[-] kindenough@kbin.earth 5 points 5 months ago

We have a suckhead that parks his delivery van on the middle of a cross over (we call it a zebra pad) everytime to deliver goods to our local flower shop. So I tell him he is unlawfully parked, he says I shouldn't worry, it is just for a minute. I tell him it takes only a second for a pedestrian to get hurt. He didn’t care the slightest bit.

[-] Krzd@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

In Germany, parents cannot be held liable if their child under 12 (or 14?) damages illegally parked cars with their bike.... Just a random fact of the day, nothing to do with your comment.

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Call the cops on him. Every. Single. Time.

[-] kindenough@kbin.earth 2 points 5 months ago

Next time I will photograph his license plate along with the zebra crossing. I've seen him doing it twice before. So the third time I talked to him.

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[-] Kanda@reddthat.com 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Don't they have traffic wardens in Cambridge? They'd be fined and possibly towed as well here

[-] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

The police very, very rarely do anything about this kind of thing here. It’s not just Amazon; even everyday random people just stop in the middle of the street to pick people up or drop people off.

The worst offender is Uber Eats, which regularly completely blocks up roads near restaurants.

[-] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

You'd think, but there are three levels of responsibility: the city council, the county council, and the local police. Calling any one of them to complain and demand enforcement results in them redirecting you to one of the others.

Basically, unless you're blocking car traffic, no one with power cares.

[-] Kanda@reddthat.com 2 points 5 months ago

Just gotta wait for that cyclist that turns into the road because a car was blocking him. Then it'll be all "oh no how could this ever happen?"

[-] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

But why weren't they wearing their helmet/high-vis/body armour???

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[-] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 2 points 5 months ago

Amazon drivers aren’t Amazon employees, and aren’t paid well enough or treated well enough to care. Don’t be angry at the drivers, be angry at Amazon.

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[-] cynar@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

That can be both incompetent and arseholes. The 2 aren't mutually exclusive.

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