I wish there was as much outrage about the giant yank tanks taking over our streets, as there was about kids on electric fat bikes...
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Quixoticgeek
Unknown parent • • •Cassandrich
Unknown parent • • •Michael ααααααα
Unknown parent • • •@apicultor @cstross @Nicovel0
Certainly what they ought not be doing is what Westminster does. If you look carefully at the offside front wheel of the Volvo, you can see the remains of the old bay markings; Westminster enlarged them all by Β±30 cms because wankpanzers have got bigger.
Just put tickets on them. It will encourage owners to buy more carefully next time.
Michael ααααααα
Unknown parent • • •Michael ααααααα
Unknown parent • • •@cstross @Nicovel0 It frustrates me that councils are ignoring this source of revenue.
These drivers are asking for Β£65 tickets.
Apicultor π
in reply to Michael ααααααα • • •@baoigheallain That second one physically cannot fit between the lines. Since it's road-legal, what to do?
@cstross @quixoticgeek @Nicovel0
vriesk (Jan Srz)
in reply to Apicultor π • • •@apicultor @baoigheallain @cstross @Nicovel0 Since when "road legality" means it can park anywhere it does not fit?
20 ton trucks are also road-legal, and yet.
Apicultor π
in reply to Michael ααααααα • • •@baoigheallain Good point!
@cstross @quixoticgeek @Nicovel0
Apicultor π
Unknown parent • • •@mgleadow ALSO an excellent point!
@baoigheallain @cstross @quixoticgeek @Nicovel0
Martin Gleadow
Unknown parent • • •@baoigheallain @apicultor @cstross @Nicovel0 while excessively large vehicles are a hazard, car dimensions have grown in since a lot of parking standards were defined. Not all of this is down to penis replacement vehicles, there have also been increases in width due to increases on safety measures (just look at a 1980 car door Vs 2020 to see the thickness changes).
While reduced car usage is a good thing, small parking bays risk discriminating against people of reduced mobility.
Michael ααααααα
in reply to Michael ααααααα • • •Peter Brown
in reply to Michael ααααααα • • •If larger spaces are to be provided, they should be at a greatly increased cost.
Apicultor π
in reply to Michael ααααααα • • •@baoigheallain In some countries there is a maximum distance from the curb that you can park. Perhaps this isn't the case (or isn't enforced) there?
@cstross @quixoticgeek @Nicovel0
Apicultor π
in reply to Quixoticgeek • • •Flip the coin over: the amount of space for parking is finite, so go ahead and make the parking spots bigger... in exchange for fewer of them!
@baoigheallain @cstross @Nicovel0
Apicultor π
Unknown parent • • •@mgleadow This has happened to me before too. To try to avoid it, I started replying after the first username, leaving the rest at the bottom after a blank line... like here!
@baoigheallain
Martin Gleadow
Unknown parent • • •Michael ααααααα
Unknown parent • • •@mgleadow @etchedpixels @apicultor @cstross @Nicovel0
Iβm all for considering the interconnections. The street in my linked post is known to me because that was my daughter's cycle to her primary school. The council made that road Β±60cm narrower during her time at that school, which badly impacted on her journey.
Letting cars grow has interconnected problems.
mastodon.ie/@baoigheallain/115β¦
Michael ααααααα
2025-08-23 11:21:05
Martin Gleadow
Unknown parent • • •Michael ααααααα
in reply to Apicultor π • • •