• Hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    12 hours ago

    Why is there a parking payment kiosk next to the bus lane on a road with no street parking? Something isn’t adding up here.

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      11 hours ago

      Found the location on street view. The bus lane is a weird partial bus lane that only exists on part of the block. Most of the lane is available for parking.

      The bus lane areas are painted red, and there is a sign at the start saying no parking/tow away zone. But they aren’t aligned properly. The red pavement starts about a car legnth before the no parking/tow away sign.

      In most traffic codes, signage takes precidence over painted markings on the street. So as far as I can tell, the truck in the picture is parked legally, despite being on red pavement.

      This is some particularly stupid street design, and this post is an incredibly manipulatively framed picture, with the sign just out of frame, but not an example of illegal street parking.

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        11 hours ago

        I mean this all depends on if there’s actually a parking spot there. I know in the city I live in parking kiosks each parking spot is numbered so that way when you pay for parking you pay for the numbered spot itself. And bustling areas there are no numbered areas like that.

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          8 hours ago

          There is a sign that says no parking in front, paid parking behind. Its clearly visible in the picture I attached to my comment if your instance can display it.

          Parking kiosks are not regulatory signs, which is why I mentioned the sign rather than the kiosk.

          Parking is by plate not space. There are no individually marked parking spots on this street.

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    8 hours ago

    Where does it says it’s a bus lane? I only see “SNB”, which stands for “snob” - which makes it perfectly acceptable for a Cybertruck to park there.

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    16 hours ago

    I flip off every cybercuck I see. You can’t own one without supporting a fascist so everyone driving one is an asshole. I think you should be socially ostracized for owning one of these pieces of shit and I am doing my part.

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      15 hours ago

      I used to, then I did it in heavy traffic, and saw this guy go crazy. He got stuck behind me, but was trying to catch up, and I noticed his window was down. I figured he wanted to yell at me, but he never got the chance.

      Two days later they arrested a SwastiKKKar owner after he took some shots at someone who flipped him off on the same highway.

      Same guy? I like to think so. SwastiKKKar owners are weirdos.

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        6 hours ago

        It has a wrap. Which is replaceable at great cost to the owner. It would be a shame if someone used it as a whiteboard or somehow water got underneath the wrap or if it found itself by a fire.

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    17 hours ago

    No registration plate on the front? That’d be illegal where I’m from. You need to be able to identify the car from both sides, after all.

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    16 hours ago

    But this Tesla is illegally parking and stealing money from a private equity firm since Chicago sold all their parking revenue…

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        15 hours ago

        Illinois, where this pic is from, is one of those states! Maybe this car is from out of town

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        13 hours ago

        Kind of funny to see, “only” used to describe 3/5 of a whole. That’s most states, though even the ones that do require it rarely use it as more than a pretense for a stop.

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    17 hours ago

    Lol people are too fucking stupid. Why would anyone buy this POS car  its a literal spying machine and its not even spying on others, ITS SPYING ON YOU

    Also Elon musk is a pedophile billionaire who can come after your kids next and you can’t do anything about it coz you’re slaving a 9-5 and he has billion dollars

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      18 hours ago

      It also spies on others as well, because the exterior cameras are also uploading to Tesla.

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      18 hours ago

      They’re there because the city needs to pay the private company that owns the parking spots for the space the bus lane occupies

      (Actually not sure about this specific case, but wouldn’t be surprised if it was, since Chicago Parking Meters owns all the parking meters too)

      Chicago Parking Meters - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Parking_Meters

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      11 hours ago

      Because its a probably legal parking space. City painted the bus lane about a car length too soon, or the no parking sign a car length too late.

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      17 hours ago

      Woah now, are we sure killing somebody is the right call here? It’s only illegal parking after all.

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        15 hours ago

        Chicago city policy is that 911 is the number to call if illegally parked cars are blocking traffic so they can send out a dispatch. Calling the police is literally the correct answer.

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        Woah now, are we sure killing somebody is the right call here?

        Do you think that someone should be allowed to own a Tesla without being murdered?