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Amazon delivery vans were parked in bike lanes all over Cambridge today. (mastodon.social)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

In my country you can submit a photo of this to the local police with a statement swearing it's a true photo, then your name and tax ID number. Then in 6-9 months the vehicle owner will receive a citation and fee in the mail.

It's fun because you have a serial offender who thinks they are getting away with it like this, but in 6-9 months they will get the first few and correct their behavior but continue to receive the citations. Then they will finally look at the dates of the offense on the citation and realize they have thousands of euros in fees still coming for months of shitty behavior.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

Oh, man. We want immediate justice so often, but I almost think the delay is the best part of that.

Still means 6 months of cyclist frustration though…

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (8 children)

That's the dream. Where do you live?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (3 children)

We have a suckhead that parks his delivery van on the middle of a cross over (we call it a zebra pad) everytime to deliver goods to our local flower shop. So I tell him he is unlawfully parked, he says I shouldn't worry, it is just for a minute. I tell him it takes only a second for a pedestrian to get hurt. He didn’t care the slightest bit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Call the cops on him. Every. Single. Time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

Next time I will photograph his license plate along with the zebra crossing. I've seen him doing it twice before. So the third time I talked to him.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

In Germany, parents cannot be held liable if their child under 12 (or 14?) damages illegally parked cars with their bike.... Just a random fact of the day, nothing to do with your comment.

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[+] [email protected] -20 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

As a person who does this job I have to say I have zero sympathy for the entitlement expressed in this thread and find no fault in any parking job these people use to save themselves the extra 50 steps x 200 places a day they have to deliver to. If you don't feel safe going around then you can fucking wait the literal minute it takes for them to walk back and forth.

You feel entitled to them literally wearing their bodies down to dust for your convenience because you think of them as lesser human beings to yourself and you need to do self crit immediately.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

A car lane is dedicated to the through traffic of cars. Similarly a bike lane is dedicated to the through traffic of bikes. If it is truly such a nothing burger to wait one minute, surely you would have no problem stopping on the car lane either and telling drivers to wait. And yet I have never seen a delivery driver attempt this - probably because it is considered socially acceptable for drivers to honk at shout at anyone blocking their way. Not so for cyclists, even though they are the more vulnerable road users.

Perhaps you could also stop at a bus stop and tell the bus driver to wait a minute. Or you could stop in a stranger's driveway while they are attempting to leave. Or hey, stop on a train track. Let me know how that goes for you. It's only a minute, right?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 13 hours ago

Maybe you guys should unionise so you don't have such shit working conditions.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

This is OK

This is ridiculous

[–] [email protected] 10 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

My first response to this was expletive-laden, but I think I might get through to you if I reign it in, so I'm trying to be polite here. Just understand that I am seething with rage while I type this.

Hey there friend. You need to learn to park or stop driving. Seriously, you're endangering lives for your convenience. You get the whole damned road while everyone else is allocated the slightest fraction to safeguard ourselves from drunks, assholes, and morons pushing two tonnes of steel and glass at 60mph while they stare at their phones and you think it's ok to push kids on bikes into that channel of death because you can't be bothered to look for a legit parking spot? I get that your employer is pressuring you for better times, but you're literally breaking the law and that law exists for a reason.

Every one of the 4 of the drivers I saw that day were parking on the cycle lane when they had multiple more reasonable options available to them:

The driveways of those receiving the packages
Around the corner in a safer area where parking spaces are allocated by the city for just this situation
Blocking the road. I understand that this seems crazy to someone who spends so much time on the road, but blocking a car lane is an inconvenience. Blocking a cycle lane gets people killed.

What you're doing is lazy, selfish, and dangerous. Those cycle lanes are barely safe as they are without constantly being blocked by selfish people who think that they double as a parking space. You already have nearly the entirety of the city for your vehicle. Leave these alone.

[+] [email protected] -18 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

but I think I might get through to you if I reign it in

Condescending piece of shit. Fuck you.

The premise alone that you're not the one who needs to be gotten through to but I am. Spoiled fucking brat. And the fucking nerve to think you can not just talk down to me, but act like you even have the fucking knowledge to speak on this situation from the perspective of an outsider. Childlike entitlement and narcissism. And fucking stupid in the worst, laziest way. Incurious and presumptive.

Just understand that I am seething with rage while I type this.

Then walk away. Message me again when you're in a place where you can admit you're wrong. I'm not going to waste my time or energy on you until you're ready to accept the premise that I'm a human being that deserves equal consideration to you.

And since conceding that puts you at odds with your spoiled entitlement to my physical well being, I expect you to shut the fuck up and not reply at all.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

This is what I get for trying to be civil. You're a terrible person and you should be ashamed of yourself.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

You should read Marx, you know, educate yourself. Those delivery drivers are agents of the bourgeoisie, and class traitors don't deserve respect.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Entitled treat hogs want their shit in 24 hours and they want all the consequences to fall on the people 'lower' than them. Fuck them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

they want all the consequences to fall on the people 'lower' than them. Fuck them.

Nobody here has used the word "lower", you've conjured that word up. Do you think perhaps you might be projecting?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Don't be stupid. The obvious implication of setting your own convenience above someone else's health and safety is that you think you're above them. Fuck off with this concern trolling you smarmy twerp.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The obvious implication of setting your own convenience above someone else's health and safety is that you think you're above them.

Setting their own convenience above everyone else's health and safety is what these Amazon drivers have done.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

An infantile 'no u' that's to be expected from a stupid, spoiled child. I'm trying to do a physical fucking job with as little damage to my body as possible. But no matter how many times you hear the consequences you put on the health and safety of other people, your fucking spoiled entitlement and positioning your humanity over others causes you to interpret it as "convenience." This is projection. You can't be fucking bothered to wait a few seconds. That's literally a complaint about convenience. But you're human and I'm not so the scales must be tipped in your favor, hence your mental gymnastics.

I wonder if you can understand that I'm replying to your comment without quoting the entire thing word for word. Dope.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

You can't be fucking bothered to wait a few seconds. That's literally a complaint about convenience.

Blocking a cyclepath impacts the safety of cyclists. And yet:

no matter how many times you hear the consequences you put on the health and safety of other people, your fucking spoiled entitlement and positioning your humanity over others causes you to interpret it as "convenience."

You're projecting.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The problem, my dear, is Amazon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The problem is suburbs and single family homes. They want all of the convenience and infrastructure of living in a city they just want it spread out to the point they never have to interact with anyone else. Give me a centralized community center where people go to get their deliveries and it solves everybody's problem.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

That's also a problem. Most of the people on Fuck Cars also acknowledge that suburbanism is not sustainable, and want denser communities.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

I wish they'd just use the postal service. In Canada they've set up nice secure package boxes and leave a key in your normal (also secured) mailbox. And if it takes a few days to arrive, so be it.

They should change extra for packages too large or urgent for Canada Post and use that money to hire professionals that understand not everything revolves around their delivery schedule and that random cyclists that happen to be passing through the area have nothing to do with their orders.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Delivery trucks, full stop, around here. Though some stop on the street instead, which I prefer, but car drivers usually don't.

In the end, I find it hard to be angry at overworked, underpaid people, who have to work around infrastructure that clearly hasn't been planned with their job in mind.

At least UPS is switching to large bike-like vehicles around here. Hope that trend continues.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago

Thank you for being the only one in this comment section that isn't a spoiled piece of shit punching down

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

That can be both incompetent and arseholes. The 2 aren't mutually exclusive.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (11 children)

Don't they have traffic wardens in Cambridge? They'd be fined and possibly towed as well here

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

The police very, very rarely do anything about this kind of thing here. It’s not just Amazon; even everyday random people just stop in the middle of the street to pick people up or drop people off.

The worst offender is Uber Eats, which regularly completely blocks up roads near restaurants.

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