They illegally park wherever. Block sidewalks. Block bike lanes. Block Crosswalks. Double-park.
Imagine I opened a store selling…I don’t know…chairs. Then I put out chairs
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on 4 or 5 blocks all around my store!!
If that were to happen here. You would be able to hear the entire city celebrating from the next town over as their entire budget for the next year will be covered entirely from parking tickets.
Put a key in your hand and extend it out in any direction. If the car is in the bike lane. Scratch the ever loving fuck out of the car. Problem solved. They’ll move the cars for sure.
Toss broken spark plug ceramic at the windows.
I do think vandalizing illegally parked cars is a good way to get the city to fine them.
That’s not the goal though. If the cars are getting damaged, can’t sell them. Wasting the dealers time will most likely get them to move the cars and stop parking them there. Tickets will just turn into cost of business, if they get them at all. Anything else is just icing.
City could make some $$$ actually writing some tickets. Laws have no meaning without enforcement.
laws have no meaning…
Pretty much describes the last decade + across the board.
That’s just a residential Chicago neighborhood.
Jfc, why does the bike lane cross the street like that? It looks super unsafe
More like, why does the street cross the bike lane like that.
Fair enough. But the planners of this road must have a burning hatred of cyclists.
Can’t speak for this street, may just be poor planning, but sometimes you have to work within the limits of budget or the location you’re working with.
It could be something less obvious, like utilities running shallow alongside the road and without the budget to move those, or the bike lane was added after the streets were in place.
Wild.
The city where I live employs private tow truck operators to remove cars illegally parked. They swoop in like vulchers and take cars away within minutes.
Hefty fine to get it back too.
Just roll down with a can of spray paint
Would sure be a shame if a pedestrian with a stroller or wagon walking down the sidewalk accidentally scratched the fuck out of them
This is a protest by those car dealerships against that bike lane. The bike lane is less than 10 years old and was hard-fought for by the de Blasio administration against the dealerships in this section of queens. After the lane went in the dealerships started parking their cars on the public sidewalks and encroaching into the bike lane as much as they could just to be assholes. The cops of course cannot be convinced to do jack shit about it.
To be fair, thats more a bylaw officer problem than a cop problem, at least thats how it would work in my area.
Parking enforcement used to be seperate from NYPD but was subsumed around the late 80s / early 90s. Some US cities still do it that way though, I live in Portland these days and parking enforcement here falls under the bureau of transportation.
Smash all the windows. I mean if enough people do it…
All of these vehicles can be reported for illegal parking on NYC311. It’s a bit of a pain to do but from what I’ve heard they’re acting on reports much faster than they used to lately.
i would just key em, personally. well, guess you can always do both. in the big cities i’v been to car dealerships are tiered with practically all cars stored inside
Only do one. If you report it and key the car, then they’ll have a suspect.
Queens is basically rich Manhattanites car garage. It sucks.
Holy shit that’s bad. And I thought it was wasteful when some car-stores popped up close-by me in a mid-sized Finnish city, and what they built on was unused fields before. Still I can’t understand how it’s profitable to rent that much, surely people aren’t buying cars that often. But I guess it has to be profitable, since we’re in capitalism.
Just how is a mystery to me.
Also your bike-infra kinda sucks. I’m happy to see it exists, but… for your sake I’d hope it’d be improved. Like maybe set up lights for the bike crossing so you don’t have to rely on people’s good will not to get driven over.
All of NYC is like this. Cops, MAGA trucks, dealerships, delivery trucks- fucking everyone parks on the sidewalk
Sorry to hear that
To be fair, the bike lane is better than 99.9999% of America’s biking infrastructure, so… it’s not get too picky here.
That’s a very low bar.
My hometown has a kenworth plant
Kenworth has a bad habit of putting huge parking lots for their truck everywhere they can, and then leaving them unattended for months on end.
Kenworth learned the hard way that they need to keep better control over where they leave their shit, otherwise people who have a reason to hate them (which is a lot of people around there) might fuck with their trucks and cause millions in damages.
Another great example why bike lanes need to be separated and protected by structures
Just start keying the shit out of these cars.
Oops, I accidentally left the grip off of the side of my handlebars.
This is the way
