It's the kind of thing that makes me wish the police had an easy text line for reporting obvious violations like that. Seems like the kind of thing where you should be able to snap a photo of the vehicle, license plate and violation in one photo and text it off for an officer to look over and verify then write and mail a parking ticket. Best part is, it's a low risk enforcement, and if the law is written well enough it could be a net good in preventing parked cars from blocking shit without lending itself to over-enforcement
Seems like the kind of thing where you should be able to snap a photo of the vehicle, license plate and violation in one photo and text it off for an officer to look over and verify then write and mail a parking ticket.
That might have been cool 5 years ago ... but in the age of easily available AI photo generation/manipulation, this could be giving false reporters far too much power.
Are they parked or waiting to pick up kids from school? There is a lot of entitlement in a school pick up line. One driveway in my neighborhood has to have signs saying don’t block the driveway.
That was my guess, some is the most deranged driving and parking happens by schools, even high schools where the kids don't need anyone there to get them. They swarm in all around the block, as if there weren't a dozen other ways to get them home.
I did, but I grew up in a town of 13,000 people with the school less than half a mile away. Most places in the US are too car centric and the schools too far away for kids to walk.
I live in a town about that size, and I'd estimate that over half of students get to/from school via their parents driving them. Which is insane because the way the buses are setup, your kids will just be picked up/dropped off from whatever the nearest school to your home is, so the parents spending multiple hours each day going to multiple schools to drop off then multiple schools to pick up could entirely avoid it
It's seriously the only real rush hour in my town is when school starts/ends
About the only edgecase I've seen with busing in my town is if you have multiple kids in school and one is special needs, because the special needs bus exclusively goes door to door and they don't let siblings ride with them unless the sibling is also special needs, so parents have to be in 2 places at once for both kids to take the bus
...because young kids are insane and constantly make poor choices when left to their own devices.
I don't think kids should walk to school independently until they're at least about 9 or 10. Before that point their decision making skills are simply not developed enough and their understanding of risk is basically non-existent. Is it probably fine at a younger age? Yeah, but it's not a risk worth taking, especially given how society at large generally considers all kids to require 24/7 parental monitoring even at ages where they should gain some independence
We need some kind of monster truck style bike that just patrols around and crushes these cars, and some dude riding it could say “HELL YEAH BROTHER” and other remarks of this nature.
Hate on cars all you want, and the idiocy that accompanies them, but please don't encourage setting things on fire in California, especially as they start to enter fire season. That's a good way to end up with massive, out of control fires that do billions in damage.
Just call a towtruck. They'll have a field day here.
No don't listen to them! The fires must spread for ash is a grand fertilizer so burn it all! Also fuck Moreno Valley, sincerely an Inland Imperial Hick.
I honestly hate green bike lane paint. Make bike lanes fucking normal, stop spending extra money on a coating of slick paint that ironically lowers bike tire grip just to imply that they're some special unique infrastructure which the city has no real plan to commit to. Asphalt blacktop as the default road surface was standardized by cyclists, don't keep us from it!
In my country we have red asphalt for bicycles lanes. Not asphalt with paint over it but, color mixed in with the asphalt.
And the green and blue many countries use for bicycle lanes is ugly as hell. The brownish brick red my country uses looks way better. Blends in with nature and the urban environment since it’s the color of brick.
Yeah if the dye is in the asphalt then that's fine, doesn't ruin the rolling properties. I wonder how that looks after it gets torn up and recycled (Old asphalt that gets torn up gets remixed and reused).
I see painted cycle lanes regularly being adopted by drivers as parking free here too 🙁 Unfortunately if people think they can get away with parking somewhere, they'll just do it.
Painting the road is not not enough when it comes to proper cycling infrastructure. The lanes need to be properly protected from the where the cars are and parking regulations need to be enforced properly as well. This includes people blocking good portion of a pavement with their car, another thing which is common here too 🙁
An ice pick to the side wall of all their tires would be a fitting punishment. When they call police to complain the cops can then give them parking tickets on top.
"Ninja rocks" is what they called the broken ceramic bits from spark plugs because you can throw a handful of them at a window, and it damages the glass without breaking it. When you do break the glass by hitting it after, it shatters more quietly.
Some cop could fill a quota real easy.
It's very rare I wish I was a cop... But I wish I was there, as a cop, going right down the line, tickets for everybody!
Would be so satisfying!
It's the kind of thing that makes me wish the police had an easy text line for reporting obvious violations like that. Seems like the kind of thing where you should be able to snap a photo of the vehicle, license plate and violation in one photo and text it off for an officer to look over and verify then write and mail a parking ticket. Best part is, it's a low risk enforcement, and if the law is written well enough it could be a net good in preventing parked cars from blocking shit without lending itself to over-enforcement
That might have been cool 5 years ago ... but in the age of easily available AI photo generation/manipulation, this could be giving false reporters far too much power.
It's basically what New York City has been doing with some success already and there's been attempts to create a similar program for parking enforcement as well
How to narc: https://moreno-valley.ca.us/cdd/services/code-violation-new.html
Apply "I park like I'm a piece of shit" stickers liberally.
Download this app and start reporting
https://www.bikelaneuprising.com/
Are they parked or waiting to pick up kids from school? There is a lot of entitlement in a school pick up line. One driveway in my neighborhood has to have signs saying don’t block the driveway.
That was my guess, some is the most deranged driving and parking happens by schools, even high schools where the kids don't need anyone there to get them. They swarm in all around the block, as if there weren't a dozen other ways to get them home.
In most of the world even primary school kids walk home alone.
Or, gasp, take public transit.
I did, but I grew up in a town of 13,000 people with the school less than half a mile away. Most places in the US are too car centric and the schools too far away for kids to walk.
I live in a town about that size, and I'd estimate that over half of students get to/from school via their parents driving them. Which is insane because the way the buses are setup, your kids will just be picked up/dropped off from whatever the nearest school to your home is, so the parents spending multiple hours each day going to multiple schools to drop off then multiple schools to pick up could entirely avoid it
It's seriously the only real rush hour in my town is when school starts/ends
About the only edgecase I've seen with busing in my town is if you have multiple kids in school and one is special needs, because the special needs bus exclusively goes door to door and they don't let siblings ride with them unless the sibling is also special needs, so parents have to be in 2 places at once for both kids to take the bus
...Why does the non-special-needs child need a parent to wait with them? Are they prone to wandering into the street or something?
...because young kids are insane and constantly make poor choices when left to their own devices.
I don't think kids should walk to school independently until they're at least about 9 or 10. Before that point their decision making skills are simply not developed enough and their understanding of risk is basically non-existent. Is it probably fine at a younger age? Yeah, but it's not a risk worth taking, especially given how society at large generally considers all kids to require 24/7 parental monitoring even at ages where they should gain some independence
A real estate agent tried to sell me on not one but two houses which were directly across the street from a school.
I was like, "lol, no. In fact, no houses within a school zone."
"School pick up line" is still one of the most American concepts I've heard of.
We need some kind of monster truck style bike that just patrols around and crushes these cars, and some dude riding it could say “HELL YEAH BROTHER” and other remarks of this nature.
https://minitruckdepot.com/daihatsu-hijet-features-equipment/mini-trucks-snow-plows/ May be an acceptable alternative?
Paint isn't infrastructure, when will cities learn that?
Even paint could have prevented this.
Red.
On the curb.
There is a no parking sign. I don't think a red curb will stop them
I think a lot of people who blow past a sign, and even ignore the green path, would see the red curb and realize they'll get a ticket.
Alternatively, one of those emergency window breakers and just bike down the lane swinging
I guess parking tickets are not expensive enough in this village?
If cops were useful creatures that looks like a shit-ton of revenue just waiting to be generated for that city
In the civilized Netherlands, parking in the bike lanes is a jackpot for the tow truck driver.
1-800-TOWTRUCK
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermite
Doesn't remove the cars, but sends a loud message.
But... Thermite's not explosive? They probably won't hear it.
Aim for the fuel tank then.
But even without a sound made by the thermite, the message can be loud and clear.
In a school zone? What are you, the US military?
Why would you thermite the fuel tank? A pile the size of a quarter will burn through an entire engine block and some of the pavement under it.
Through an engine block? It's gonna snap, crackle, and pop.
Hate on cars all you want, and the idiocy that accompanies them, but please don't encourage setting things on fire in California, especially as they start to enter fire season. That's a good way to end up with massive, out of control fires that do billions in damage.
Just call a towtruck. They'll have a field day here.
No don't listen to them! The fires must spread for ash is a grand fertilizer so burn it all! Also fuck Moreno Valley, sincerely an Inland Imperial Hick.
I thought this was going to be a joke about car fires causing cancer in the state of California.
... what is that for in this scenario?
To send a message.
Can you imagine what you can do with thermite to those cars?
Looks suburban; I don't suppose the local law enforcement is supported by traffic and parking tickets? Just sayin, your incentives may align....
I take it that parking rules are not really enforced in Moreno Valley, are they?
Slap them with a bike chain.
Why isn't that curb red?? They only brought the green paint??
I honestly hate green bike lane paint. Make bike lanes fucking normal, stop spending extra money on a coating of slick paint that ironically lowers bike tire grip just to imply that they're some special unique infrastructure which the city has no real plan to commit to. Asphalt blacktop as the default road surface was standardized by cyclists, don't keep us from it!
I think it is less about "Look this is special" and more of a "Please don't drive full speed down this strip and kill someone"
Transportation planners should know better. Paint asks, concrete demands.
In my country we have red asphalt for bicycles lanes. Not asphalt with paint over it but, color mixed in with the asphalt.
And the green and blue many countries use for bicycle lanes is ugly as hell. The brownish brick red my country uses looks way better. Blends in with nature and the urban environment since it’s the color of brick.
Yeah if the dye is in the asphalt then that's fine, doesn't ruin the rolling properties. I wonder how that looks after it gets torn up and recycled (Old asphalt that gets torn up gets remixed and reused).
It was? May I please have the entrance to that rabbit hole?
You sure can!
Make the bike lanes level with the sidewalk, jesus!
I see painted cycle lanes regularly being adopted by drivers as parking free here too 🙁 Unfortunately if people think they can get away with parking somewhere, they'll just do it.
Painting the road is not not enough when it comes to proper cycling infrastructure. The lanes need to be properly protected from the where the cars are and parking regulations need to be enforced properly as well. This includes people blocking good portion of a pavement with their car, another thing which is common here too 🙁
An ice pick to the side wall of all their tires would be a fitting punishment. When they call police to complain the cops can then give them parking tickets on top.
Easier and far less dangerous to cut the valve stem
You can easily replace a valve stem, you can't repair a tire with sidewall damage.
First valve stem, then ice pick
I feel like the inconvenience of them replacing the valve stem is about the level they've inconvenienced me.
Gentlemen, please. There's a solution here you're not seeing.
🔥
Definitely don’t crush a spark plug and throw a piece of it against their window, though. Shattered glass is dangerous.
I've tried this and it doesn't work for shit. Maybe I needed bigger pieces? But it would just bounce off with no damage every time.
"Ninja rocks" is what they called the broken ceramic bits from spark plugs because you can throw a handful of them at a window, and it damages the glass without breaking it. When you do break the glass by hitting it after, it shatters more quietly.
I always imagined a scenario where I get a beater bike and am forced to crash into the vehicle because of dangerous traffic on the road.
Thankfully a scratched /dented car is a better outcome than a broken arm.
Casey Neistat did this intentionally for a youtube video, many times. But maybe he picked up a TBI doing so because today he's a whacked out-zionist.
There's a name I have not heard in years. What's he doing these days?
Being a whacked out zionist.
Are you legally allowed to go around with an ice pick? Be smarter to avoid getting yourself into trouble.
In the US? Absolutely.
2nd amendment isn't just for guns, bruh!
I see this kind of shit all the time in Tokyo sadly
You are supposed to slide under them. +80 points for the combo
Call them in, parking patrol will be giddy writing all those tickets in a row.
Oh hey, a second reason to carry a schrader valve tool in my bike storage! Time to give every car here a pair of flat left tires.
I note the school signs. Is this a line of parents queued up to pick up kids vs people actually parking cars in the bike lane?
Irellevant?
really needs a system where people can send in a video to report online, like the UK
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm6g2GP912ku4lPd-155-Vw
"We'll show them socialist bike riders! This is Murka! Don't it say in the Bible, the strong rule?"