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Delivery trucks already just drive on the sidewalks, and illegally parked cars/trucks already impede fire trucks and ambulances. None of those parking spaces a

by mnutt 10y ago

Delivery trucks already just drive on the sidewalks, and illegally parked cars/trucks already impede fire trucks and ambulances. None of those parking spaces are ever open to delivery trucks, they're occupied 24/7. Eliminating street parking would just get rid of a row of parked cars.

illumin8 10y ago
It's actually very crazy. I've witnessed delivery trucks double park and instantly get parking tickets. I think (and the article seems to confirm it) they just look at the ticket as a price of doing business in NY, and pass it along to their customers. The city actually could really enforce this by towing these trucks, which would put a stop to this practice, but they are probably addicted to the ticketing revenue and don't want to put a stop to their "free money." Then there is the problem of how would the restaurants and stores get their inventory if the delivery trucks are effectively banned from parking? It seems like there might be a great technological solution that involves rooftop deliveries by drone, but that is probably some years out, and likely to be stifled by paranoid regulators that don't like the idea of UAVs flying so close to skyscrapers, especially in an area that is constantly under the threat of terrorist attack.
- ghaff 10y ago
  >paranoid regulators Like the paranoid regulators who banned helicopters after one fell off the top of the Pan Am building. http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/helicopter-flips-park-avenue-1977-article-1.2214161 http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/helicopter-flips-park-av... What could go wrong with a dense network of flying objects carrying heavy deliveries over densely trafficked thoroughfares?
  - illumin8 10y ago
    This is from 1977. An accident caused by a structurally unsound helipad almost 40 years ago should be a reason why we never allow drones to deliver packages in the city? > “It appeared it was a structural fault that had nothing to do with the flight,” he said.
  - nashashmi 10y ago
    In Medina, SA, there is a law that every hotel must have a helipad. A helipad would be sorely needed on Trump Towers for President-elect. I wonder if they would change the law for him.

by mnutt 10y ago

illumin8 10y ago

It's actually very crazy. I've witnessed delivery trucks double park and instantly get parking tickets. I think (and the article seems to confirm it) they just look at the ticket as a price of doing business in NY, and pass it along to their customers. The city actually could really enforce this by towing these trucks, which would put a stop to this practice, but they are probably addicted to the ticketing revenue and don't want to put a stop to their "free money." Then there is the problem of how would the restaurants and stores get their inventory if the delivery trucks are effectively banned from parking? It seems like there might be a great technological solution that involves rooftop deliveries by drone, but that is probably some years out, and likely to be stifled by paranoid regulators that don't like the idea of UAVs flying so close to skyscrapers, especially in an area that is constantly under the threat of terrorist attack.

ghaff 10y ago
>paranoid regulators Like the paranoid regulators who banned helicopters after one fell off the top of the Pan Am building. http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/helicopter-flips-park-avenue-1977-article-1.2214161 http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/helicopter-flips-park-av... What could go wrong with a dense network of flying objects carrying heavy deliveries over densely trafficked thoroughfares?
- illumin8 10y ago
  This is from 1977. An accident caused by a structurally unsound helipad almost 40 years ago should be a reason why we never allow drones to deliver packages in the city? > “It appeared it was a structural fault that had nothing to do with the flight,” he said.
- nashashmi 10y ago
  In Medina, SA, there is a law that every hotel must have a helipad. A helipad would be sorely needed on Trump Towers for President-elect. I wonder if they would change the law for him.