@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.
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
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.
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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."
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!
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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in reply to Elias Mårtenson • • •I have no clue!
This seems like amsterdam, but it could be any other larger city
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It's Rotterdam :)
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The license plates are Dutch. The tram is number 10, and it's a "rondrit", a tour of the city.
Based on a Google search, I'm confident that this is Rotterdam.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
Mats Holberg 🇺🇦
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.
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in reply to stux⚡ • • •The instructions are right there on the front of the truck: RAM
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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.
HistGymBib
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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.
Melissa BearTrix
in reply to stux⚡ • • •I wish I was a tram driver ... I would have a job for long ... Giggles
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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.
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in reply to stux⚡ • • •PREPARE FOR RAMMING SPEED!
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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.
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in reply to stux⚡ • • •It requires.
Then “adaptable flow”
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in reply to stux⚡ • • •also this.
we don't need these ugly monsters in Europe
#uspol
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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?
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in reply to stux⚡ • • •If i was the tram driver i'd jank the gas throttle to full speed.
Fck_them.
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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.
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And even without the perversely oversized thing: there are too many cars and too few playing children in this picture.
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#US #cars #Europe
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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.
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in reply to stux⚡ • • •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.
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