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This is why we don’t need #US #cars in #Europe

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in reply to stux⚡

@tantramar That's not quite true. If you have a farm, for instance, and you frequently need to transport a few cows in a trailer, you need a heavy and powerful vehicle. Judging by the looks of American streets, there are lots of farmers in the cities.
in reply to stux⚡

@notjustbikes Doesn't this picture have it all? Public trasit, US & EU cars and the point!
in reply to stux⚡

I also guess that in the picture we see more bikes compared to the number of cars. But somehow the cars dominate the picture.
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in reply to stux⚡

Anlauf nehmen und mit der Tram voll die Front der Dreckskarre wegreißen. 😈
in reply to stux⚡

i'll start using chainsaws to cut off what's bothering the rest
in reply to stux⚡

Do they get a fine for not fully parking in the spot?
in reply to Edwin G.

@EdwinG Yup, this is not allowed

But it's all the time it takes before the tram can move on pffff

in reply to stux⚡

@EdwinG Towing the car away from that spot also seems a bit difficult 🫠
in reply to stux⚡

omg. I parked next to a giant thing yesterday.
I called it the Ford Behemoth.
😂

It's so stupid to have these huge things.

in reply to stux⚡

At that point, making space for the tram with a sledgehammer should be allowed.
in reply to stux⚡

Trams need a laser to vaporize objects in front of them
#technologieoffen
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in reply to stux⚡

I cannot fathom how car owners who disturb traffic like this even once don't have to pay a fine bigger that what they spent on their metal monstruosity
in reply to stux⚡

125% tariff on oversized vehicles along with impoundment if they block mass transit, then a huge fine to get the vehicle back.
in reply to stux⚡

I wonder what the outcome was. Did the SUV get ticketed and towed?
in reply to stux⚡

Wow! I hope whoever was driving that bro-dozer got it towed away, and got a big fine for blocking the rails.
in reply to stux⚡

No, that is why you don't need assholes who buy things they can not park, and ignore reality and/or physics.

There are stupid Yurpian vehicles, too, that nobody needs elsewhere... or anywhere.

in reply to stux⚡

We hear from some Americans that they are frightened of driving in Europe "because the roads are so narrow". And they're talking about normal roads, not even Cornish lanes.
in reply to stux⚡

oh thanks, now I'll have this stuck in my head all day. 😡

youtube.com/watch?v=PI_Jl5WFQk…

in reply to stux⚡

Great post but poor alt txt, which should describe the picture so people with impaired vision can understand your point. How about:

"Photo of a European street with a tram track and a small parking area where cars are parked perpendicular to the adjacent street. Most of the parked cars are fairly short and so don't proteude into the street, but one is a giant American SUV that is so long that its front end blocks the approaching streetcar."

in reply to stux⚡

heck, I don’t think we need US sized cars in the US.
in reply to stux⚡

on the bright side - it's just made of plastic, just barrel on through..
in reply to stux⚡

looks like a Ram pickup truck, maybe long bed. In the US, the Raptor and Ram truck owners don't even try to fit in a single space...so at least this person gave it some effort!
in reply to stux⚡

See this? Go for the tires, windows, mirrors this how we operate from now on
in reply to stux⚡

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in reply to stux⚡

ah yes, let me partially park over tram tracks, what could go wrong?
in reply to stux⚡

Well, you can keep your traffic circle round-a-bouts!! Imagine driving one of those boats through one 🤨
in reply to stux⚡

Carver S+ (a L5e vehicle) parked next to a US car.

Spottersplek, Schiphol Polderbaan, 25 August 2024

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in reply to stux⚡

Years ago we were on a sidestreet in New York and a fire engine appeared with blaring sirens and its way was blocked by a double-parked car. The fire engine had an enormous rubber fender on its front and we soon saw why. Without a moment's hesitation the fire engine driver shoved the double-parked car along in front of it till it came to a gap in the cars. There it shoved the double-parked car off the road. A man riding shotgun in the fire engine threw a piece of paper out onto the car.
in reply to stux⚡

the 'missing alt text' should also mention that the SUV is not a US brand.
in reply to stux⚡

Took a trip to Norway, then came home to an American city.

I went out shopping two weeks after getting home, and noticed I felt very nervous. Couldn't quite place why.

It was the proximity of the cars. Norway has huge swaths of streets that are pedestrian-only. In the US, we have streetside parking. I suddenly realized the low-grade survival scanning for people screwing up interacting with the curb had gotten switched off, and I was feeling it switch back on.

in reply to stux⚡

Think people: RAM is a brand of Stellantis. Headquarter in the Netherlands.
in reply to stux⚡

As an American, I'd just like to say that that vehicle should be crushed and melted.

At the idiot owner's expense, of course.

in reply to R.L. Dane 🍵

@rl_dane Oh, they'll tow it at the owner's expense and make them pay for all the follow on costs for making the train wait.
in reply to stux⚡

This happens a lot in Oslo too. I would be in favour of a policy to outfit the trams with solid enough bumpers that they could just force their way through and let the car owner deal with the damage.

This is probably not an example where that would be safe though. But there are many cases where pushing through would just inflict scratches and bumps.

in reply to stux⚡

It’s ridiculous here, too, even where parking is generally designed for immense vehicles.

This guy obviously carries that orange cone with him because that truck is way too long for any parking space anywhere.

in reply to stux⚡

Are you guys getting as fat as Americans? Is that why people over there need gigantic, awkward cars now?
in reply to stux⚡

The infinite dumbness of Supremely Unsustainable Vehicles.
in reply to stux⚡

I don't think we can call them cars anymore. They are too big to be cars.
in reply to stux⚡

Let's spend a few words also on the car owner.. How can you park there, in your right mind?! Don't you know what those rails are?
in reply to stux⚡

Ew, why are those monstrosities allowed in the EU?
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in reply to stux⚡

We once made nice little cars in the United States. Behold, the Ford Fiesta:
in reply to stux⚡

As someone from the US, even I hate how stupidly big trucks have gotten here.
in reply to stux⚡

Whip the right tools out and explain to the driver later, that ... youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_Jq…
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in reply to stux⚡

I would say rather this is why US cars don’t belong in Europe.

Consider this point: cities that do not allocate infrastructure to cars, save 90% of all the resources needed to make a car centric world possible.

Every city government must be made to understand this. A city without cars largely saves 90% of all the expense for itself and for its residents. Best of all city without cars invests a whole lot more money on businesses and people instead.

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in reply to stux⚡

Isn't this car eventually just starting? (Whatever the reason may have been for parking like this)
in reply to stux⚡

In America 🇺🇸 people are highly encouraged to buy large cars as they are safer in car accidents due to the presence of other large cars (smaller cars would get crushed against a larger car apparently).

It’s a weird slippery slope, but the larger cars also consume more energy (gas or electricity) & take up way more space in parking lots.

in reply to stux⚡

I wish I was a tram driver ... I would have a job for long ... Giggles

Hugz & xXx

in reply to stux⚡

I believe the word on the truck's grill is an instruction for passing trains. :neofox_evil:
in reply to stux⚡

size still seems to matter. Every item went through "evolution", the parking lots not so much.
in reply to stux⚡

We have european vehicles of that size. But those are mini buses with 13+1 seats.
in reply to stux⚡

lately i see people driving big ass trucks in the dutch suburbs like bro you don't need all that😭😭people just driving child flatteners and for what
in reply to stux⚡

Those murder machines should be banned from all Dutch cities! (And probably everywhere else too.)
in reply to stux⚡

if one really needs such a big car for work or as ego enlargement, one cannot park it on a normal sized space. How fucked up.must one be to park like this? *rhetorical question*

He (it is most likely a he) should pay an extra fine for every passenger that is delayed on all affected lines. Let say 20€ per person.

in reply to stux⚡

The tram needs a forklift mechanism built into it so it can lift and drag that abomination out of its way, ideally leaving it inverted.
@kaia
@kaia
in reply to stux⚡

I hope, as slowly and carefully as possible, that trolly pushed the dickbag's SUZ aside.
in reply to stux⚡

PREPARE FOR RAMMING SPEED!

youtube.com/watch?v=rTAx8r_090…

in reply to stux⚡

That is also why we don't need US cars in the US. I'd prefer a tram to a stupid utility vehicle anyday
in reply to stux⚡

Says more about the driver than the vehicle. These people exist everywhere.
in reply to stux⚡

I've been there... you couldn't have US cars even if you wanted them... half the roads are the width of bike paths.🤣
in reply to stux⚡

It's not a car, it's a motorized inferiority complex.
in reply to stux⚡

We also don't need cars like that in the U.S., or at least parts of it - probably why I've never bought an American car - most are too big.

A few weeks ago, we saw a play in San Francisco. Our vehicles (we had two) were small, foldable electric scooters that we "parked" in coat check. After it ended, one of the ushers watched us unfold the scooters & gave us a thumbs up - it took ~15 seconds.. Then we rode to the train station, folded the scooters, and got on a train for the trip home.

in reply to stux⚡

Also digging the Mercedes who's too cool to park in one spot. Some things, like entitlement, transcend geographical boundaries.
in reply to stux⚡

I'd be happy if my town actually had public transit
in reply to stux⚡

Out-of-format shapes.
It requires.
Then “adaptable flow”
in reply to stux⚡

I sincerely wish my country would start limiting the size and weight of non-commercial vehicles.
in reply to stux⚡

At least they should only be allowed in the countryside. To be parked with tractors and mobile homes.
in reply to stux⚡

There are more parked bicycles in this photo than there are parked cars.

And yet, which mode of transport is the problem here?

in reply to stux⚡

If i was the tram driver i'd jank the gas throttle to full speed.

Fck_them.

in reply to stux⚡

we don't need US anything. They can also keep their toxic ideology too.
in reply to stux⚡

sometime in the 00s I first noticed how cars got bigger and people would drive vehicles commonly used for dirt tracks in the hills or so, and I thought it so counter intuitive it matched idiocy I started being so ecoclimate aware that I supposed cars would reduce and get smaller to make space for everyone else!
in reply to stux⚡

agreed, we need them over here more. I drove a Yaris into a snowbank 10 years ago and had to have my landlord tow me out with his Chevy. I'll never go back to a eurosquatter ever again, thank you.
in reply to stux⚡

sometimes i wonder how much space we would have, if people just get the car size they need instead of making it an ego/status thing for no reason
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in reply to stux⚡

also: this parking lot could have been a place to rest or a playground
in reply to stux⚡

Tbh there's too many cars in that picture. Imagine flowers instead of a parkinglot.
in reply to stux⚡

Although, to extend an olive branch to the big vehicles: nowadays the people have become more and more reckless in traffic. Just watch the tons of "car crash compilation" videos on YT. That's why i don't drive a small car. I want to have a decent amount of metal around me just for the case that some maniac runs a red and might hit me. And to all the "use the bus" people: screw you. I like to drive my car and i will continue doing it. But anyway, a normal car shouldn't exceed 5m in length.
in reply to stux⚡

they really suck. Wheels within the square isn't really enough when you have a metre of overhang. Yet, this isn't even in the the square.
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in reply to stux⚡

zero spacial awareness. Probably needs glasses too. Must be difficult to drive such car while being like this.
in reply to stux⚡

Japanese did understand it but Americana did not!
in reply to stux⚡

There's a sign on the front if this car blocking the tramway.

It says "RAM".

That sounds a bit unfortunate.

in reply to stux⚡

@claudius

And even without the perversely oversized thing: there are too many cars and too few playing children in this picture.

in reply to stux⚡

can you add a bit more description to the alt text? Can you say something like "a large USA truck is in a standard ey parking spot, but it sticks out into the road so badly that it blocks the road and tram railway bringing public transit to a halt"? Otherwise, people who are blind or low vision don't get the context here.
in reply to stux⚡

New version of the trolley dilemma: would you rather have the tram hitting a SUV or a cargo bike?
in reply to stux⚡

did the owner pay the taxis for the people who couldn't get on with the streetcar? Because that's what they do in Germany with people who park their cars in the streetcar's way. All the people who are blocked in the streetcar get a taxi and the fares are billed to the guy (let's face it, it's always a man) who parked the car. As well as a fine and the cost for removing the car. And all of that money is payable before he can retrieve his car from the collection point.
in reply to stux⚡

I mean, the fact that it doesn't fit in the space is the owner's problem. The fact that they parked it there anyway makes THEM the problem — at least until it gets towed, in about ten minutes flat I should think…
in reply to stux⚡

or US tractors. Some dutch farmers buy ginormous tractors like they are farming in Manitoba, destroying all the trees along the pittoresque country roads designed for cargo bikes two hundred years ago.
in reply to stux⚡

and this is why it's illegal to overstep marked boundaries when parking with *any* part of the vehicle.

If it fits it sits – if it sticks out it gets towed.

in reply to stux⚡

I was trying to go shopping and some asshole with a giant SUV parked up and took over half the pavement due to the huge overhang of their shitbox’s massive front end.
Like: “oh hey, love your compensation machine, that farted out a million metric tonnes of pollution into everyone’s airspace to drag your solitary lonely arse down to Lidls, such grace, so demure, definitely keying that thing like it’s a cybertruck when you aren’t looking.”
But I didn’t.
in reply to stux⚡

how did the tram get through? It should have rammed the “Ram” out of the way.