Holy shit, are you comparing potential property damage to literal murder? Your brain rot is showing.
Edit: To add to this, when I’m impeded by a “jaywalker” I might think “bruh” or “where’s the hustle?”. Not once in my entire life have I thought “I should just run you down.” You may be an actual psychopath.
I dated a girl who was actually like that. It was insane to listen to and realising it's not a joke. She lived near a bridge with foot and car traffic. They painted the bridge with waves and made it so pedestrians could just cross the street and cars have to be careful. And it was a 20km/h zone anyway, so more like: this is a foot bridge, but cars can go over too.
I wasn't from there, i was driving over the bridge and people were criss crossing and i just snuck by. She said something like: you nnow you can just drive and they have to move.
I just kinda nodded while still creeping over the bridge. When we came home, same thing. She said: sometimes i just speed up and hit the breaks, really scares them and they move.
Crossing the street is a momentary delay, a few seconds while driver sits in a climate-controlled chair with optional music, but parking across a sidewalk hinders people for minutes, hours, or even days until it is removed. The road isn't wide enough to allow people to safely enter the street to go around the obstruction, and that says nothing about those who rely on sidewalls for free movement such as the elderly, injured, and disabled.
In short, blocking other people for longer than is reasonable makes you a dick.
Drivers would not be inconvenienced by people crossing the street if they were not so big. People on foot (or even bikes) pass each other seemlessly unless it's really dense. The fault of drivers having to wait at an intersection with people on foot is their own.
Here again, drivers block to only legal way for people on foot. I think it's fair to just go over.
No, the problem is that entitled assholes buy a perfectly good house designed for a non-car-based lifestyle and then insist on trying to park a car there anyway.
The problem is the unreasonable expectation, not the building and site design.
I understand we're in the "fuck cars" community but the fact is if there's a whole neighborhood of houses jammed together and they all have cars coming out the wazoo, the entire area is probably car-dependent.
That area was probably designed long before cars became essential to living, and they're probably not in a walkable town where they have everything they need within walking distance.
The "fuck cars" mindset has a fairly minority representation & following, though it is for a noble cause & good reason
and I hope towns & cities work toward evolving to become more human-centric so cars are no longer a necessity for daily life. Reserving cars as a tool for a once-in-awhile long trip.
So don’t buy a Dodge Challenger if you can’t fit the fucking thing in your driveway. A Yaris would fit fine, or at least be close enough, and even if it went into the sidewalk a couple inches my first thought would be that they tried.
City here handed out tickets to people like that. Once. It backfired so spectaculary that they didnt want to seperate the legit tickets out of the wrongfull issued or try again.
You are probably wondering wrongfully issued? Yes, you see that "sidewalk" was in many cases still owned by the Houseowner. They bought the land from Street to the backyard back in the day, when the Street was build. Only some sold it back to the City years later.
Used to live in Philadelphia not far from here, this is tame it is not unusual at all for people to be double parked that is to say a car on both sides of the street and then another one ne next to one so 3 cars on a one lane road that would still be what I would call normal the real ass hats would be when they are quadruple parked so literally no traffic was able to get through but the police literally never responded at all unless someone was dead (not dying dead) unless you lived in the east side (rich side with the famous stuff like the liberty bell)
Even as a regular car driver, I have no problems if the city took care of this with a giant chain saw and a fork lift. Those people make car owners look like assholes.
That is actually fucking terrible. My bad side says that I should just climb over the cars, like they are part of the sidewalk lol.
Holy shit, are you comparing potential property damage to literal murder? Your brain rot is showing.
Edit: To add to this, when I’m impeded by a “jaywalker” I might think “bruh” or “where’s the hustle?”. Not once in my entire life have I thought “I should just run you down.” You may be an actual psychopath.
I dated a girl who was actually like that. It was insane to listen to and realising it's not a joke. She lived near a bridge with foot and car traffic. They painted the bridge with waves and made it so pedestrians could just cross the street and cars have to be careful. And it was a 20km/h zone anyway, so more like: this is a foot bridge, but cars can go over too.
I wasn't from there, i was driving over the bridge and people were criss crossing and i just snuck by. She said something like: you nnow you can just drive and they have to move. I just kinda nodded while still creeping over the bridge. When we came home, same thing. She said: sometimes i just speed up and hit the breaks, really scares them and they move.
Carbrained term for "crossing the street".
Crossing the street is a momentary delay, a few seconds while driver sits in a climate-controlled chair with optional music, but parking across a sidewalk hinders people for minutes, hours, or even days until it is removed. The road isn't wide enough to allow people to safely enter the street to go around the obstruction, and that says nothing about those who rely on sidewalls for free movement such as the elderly, injured, and disabled.
In short, blocking other people for longer than is reasonable makes you a dick.
Yeah, how do they expect a blind person to traverse this? Wheelchairs, etc...
Drivers would not be inconvenienced by people crossing the street if they were not so big. People on foot (or even bikes) pass each other seemlessly unless it's really dense. The fault of drivers having to wait at an intersection with people on foot is their own.
Here again, drivers block to only legal way for people on foot. I think it's fair to just go over.
Every car touching the path can get keyed. I dont make the rules.
At minimum they should be towed for being in a no parking spot
Problem is those houses & driveways were not built to accommodate cars so now the cars are oozing out onto the sidewalks.
No, the problem is that entitled assholes buy a perfectly good house designed for a non-car-based lifestyle and then insist on trying to park a car there anyway.
The problem is the unreasonable expectation, not the building and site design.
I understand we're in the "fuck cars" community but the fact is if there's a whole neighborhood of houses jammed together and they all have cars coming out the wazoo, the entire area is probably car-dependent.
That area was probably designed long before cars became essential to living, and they're probably not in a walkable town where they have everything they need within walking distance.
The "fuck cars" mindset has a fairly minority representation & following, though it is for a noble cause & good reason
and I hope towns & cities work toward evolving to become more human-centric so cars are no longer a necessity for daily life. Reserving cars as a tool for a once-in-awhile long trip.
So don’t buy a Dodge Challenger if you can’t fit the fucking thing in your driveway. A Yaris would fit fine, or at least be close enough, and even if it went into the sidewalk a couple inches my first thought would be that they tried.
New Jersey….
Yep, this is their parking skills on display, New Yorkers have to deal with their lack of driving skills on top of it lol.
City here handed out tickets to people like that. Once. It backfired so spectaculary that they didnt want to seperate the legit tickets out of the wrongfull issued or try again.
You are probably wondering wrongfully issued? Yes, you see that "sidewalk" was in many cases still owned by the Houseowner. They bought the land from Street to the backyard back in the day, when the Street was build. Only some sold it back to the City years later.
Used to live in Philadelphia not far from here, this is tame it is not unusual at all for people to be double parked that is to say a car on both sides of the street and then another one ne next to one so 3 cars on a one lane road that would still be what I would call normal the real ass hats would be when they are quadruple parked so literally no traffic was able to get through but the police literally never responded at all unless someone was dead (not dying dead) unless you lived in the east side (rich side with the famous stuff like the liberty bell)
This is why I never feel bad walking in the street. Well, this and all the basket ball hoops on the sidewalk.
Sometime I wish I had the strength of Mr. Incredible. I would just toss and push cars parked like this off the sidewalks and bike paths.
Even as a regular car driver, I have no problems if the city took care of this with a giant chain saw and a fork lift. Those people make car owners look like assholes.
In Pennsylvania when we say "Jersey assholes" this is what we're taking about.