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Ticketing people who don’t pay for parking is “bullying?”
This is pretty insulting to people who have actually suffered from real bullying. There’s plenty of real problems in the world to be righteously angry about. Maybe let’s not post shitty Facebook memes on Lemmy.
Eh, I’m not sure how I feel about this one. Parking is a huge thorn in the side of transportation reform, and ensuring parking turnover is actually pretty crucial to a functional transportation system. On-street parking is public right-of-way that could be a bike lane, enhanced bus stop, street seating for restaurants/cafes, parklets, drainage swales, large medians for trees, wider sidewalks, the list goes on. However we don’t get these nice things because “wE NeEd ThE pArKiNg SuPpLy.” Except often you’ll find that there would be sufficient supply to remove the parking on even just one side of the street if turnover were higher, and turnover is not higher because people are abusing the parking. Things like store employees parking all day in spots meant for customers, people using on-street parking to avoid more expensive lots at the destinations they’re actually visiting (like entertainment venues), etc. Have you ever encountered a parking meter that would only let you put in 2 hours of money even though you need the spot for much longer, and you had to run out mid-way through whatever you were doing to feed the meter? That means you were probably not the intended user for that space and you should have found longer-term parking elsewhere. Maybe that store manager that runs outside every other hour to feed the meter rather than use an all-day parking lot (but that’s a three-block walk away and this parking is right here!!1) or taking public transportation (because that’s beneath them) would rethink this behavior after an expensive ticket. Point is, I’m not sure helping people skirt parking regulations is fighting the system or standing up for the little guy.
Also doesn’t make the ticket redundant. Even before the ticket’s completed, once it starts being made it’s done. So whatever the fine was +0.25¢ is payback earnings for that person being a part of the automobile problem. A win for environment and infrastructure.
Oh no fuck that. I live in a country where fucking roadside peddlers and adjacent businesses have basically turned the street into their business and I can easily say I prefer the cars. It’s fucking terrible.
So fucked up that the town wouldn’t pay for a human position and instead has a PlayStation 4 handing out the meter fines.
Ok the one hand, FTP.
On the other hand, fuck cars.But, paid parking is the better route here, since free parking is a plague on actually getting walkable cities.
This is a small part of the reason why they switched to those little electronic vending machines. That and so they don’t have to pay to have people go out and empty them
