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I hate that this is becoming the norm
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I suggest vehicle length and width limits for parking lots. Parking fines for those who exceed them, and make the fines bigger the more the vehicle exceeds it.
At least where I live, vehicle technical data is publicly available by license plate, so it'd be trivial to implement too. The Europark guys will literally stand around and wait for your parking clock to expire if you stay for 2 minutes too long, how about they do something more useful instead.
Either it'll make people reconsider driving these large beasts in the city, or the owners of the parking lots get extra revenue. Either way at least it'll cost the giant truck owners money.
Honestly, requiring a separate license for larger vehicles would probably be more effective. It's already pretty common to have separate licenses for different classes of vehicles.
Make it require a more rigorous driving test, and maybe more expensive too. We should probably also outlaw consumer vehicles with such shit visibility anyway, but that's a different issue.
Vehicle over 2 tons? New license tier, restrictions on where it can park, and put a speed limiter in them capping it at 70mph.
Over 4 tons? New tier that requires the previous tier as well, more strict parking restrictions, speed limiter to 60mph.
Not to mention I'd say vehicle size as well as weight should factor in too.
I feel like speed limiters might cause a bunch of difficult-to-predict issues. But increased penalties for moving violations in higher size/weight tiers would probably be atleast as effective.
I've had a ticket for not fully parking in the bay before, this should more than qualify
Parking lots are built and run out of a desire to get people to park there (so that they don't go somewhere else). A garage owner is not going to willfully limit his customer base without a good reason. And "providing a happy parking experience" is not good enough. Driving and looking for parking is already not a happy feeling. It's a case of "the customer is always right (even if they're a dick)".
You'd need the government to force these limits and then it's not about just parking: it's regulating vehicle size entirely.
They get more money from fines than people constantly moving their parking clock and never paying. They LOVE giving fines.