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!!
Another company who has a tow truck might be really happy to know how many of those cars are parked illegally. Find the scummiest one you can too.
Yeah, it’s insane how entitled people get about using public spaces to store their private metal boxes just because the boxes have wheels.
It would be cool if they’re was some kind of list of companies that are scummy 😂. I could see my recent bike rides being very therapeutic
There’s a nearby stock exchange that keeps a list of scummy companies.
Did you see the part where the tow truck was parked in the bike lane?
Who toes the toe truck?
Oh, don’t worry, someone’s got a solution for you. Hopefully it’ll cost even more than a normal tow.
A competitor
An even scummier toe truck company
Guy thinks there’s a truck going around repossessing people’s toes.
Oops
But I also would not mind that
*tows
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
outside…might as well be asking to get keyed
Only do one. If you report it and key the car, then they’ll have a suspect.
You can’t talk about cars in NYC without talking about Robert Moses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses
He was head of dozens of government offices and manipulated the entire tri-state area for decades.
He hated any form of mass transit. He made sure that the bridges on the Long Island Expressway were too low for buses.
FWIW I believe Queens Boulevard is one of the rare automotive cesspits of NYC that actually wasn’t a Moses project. He did have a plan to make it even worse by turning it into an expressway, but never got around to it.
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.
Smash all the windows. I mean if enough people do 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.
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
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.
Have they actually parked on the bike lane? It’d be too bad if a handlebar accidentally scratched them. I used to work close to a dealership and they had taken the whole sidewalk around their building with cars. Someone parked a bicycle on that sidewalk once. They were asked to move it.
Stem valves confiscated, sketchy towing company called.
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.
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.
That merge point with the bike lane crossing the street has me sketched out. Merging vehicles trying to see past all the parked cars for oncoming traffic, bikes coming up parallel to cross, from behind traffic’s blind spot. Tragedy just waiting to happen.
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.
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.
All of NYC is like this. Cops, MAGA trucks, dealerships, delivery trucks- fucking everyone parks on the sidewalk
Sorry to hear that
Another great example why bike lanes need to be separated and protected by structures
Would sure be a shame if a pedestrian with a stroller or wagon walking down the sidewalk accidentally scratched the fuck out of them
Should cut down a safety window breaker to be glued onto the knuckles of a bike glove and just… roll down the street popping windows.
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.Usually bike lanes are tacked on as a “can we shut them up without making too many changes”
It seems like thoughtfully designed and implemented bike lanes are the exception to the rule
