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In my neighborhood, while I do see the occasional scooter or bike share bike parked across the sidewalk, far more annoying are the cars parked in their "drivewa
by Johnny555 8y ago
In my neighborhood, while I do see the occasional scooter or bike share bike parked across the sidewalk, far more annoying are the cars parked in their "driveway" that block part or all of the sidewalk
- dragonwriter 8y agoThat's illegal, though, for exactly that reason, so I'm not sure what your point is, other than that you have a problem with scofflaws in your neighborhood.
- Johnny555 8y agoMy point is that scooters are not new offenders (or even the worst offenders) of blocking the sidewalk, but no one complains about the cars, that's just accepted.
- decebalus1 8y agoCars blocking anything (at least where I live, including driveways which are part of the sidewalk) have a very short TTL. Usually within 10-30 minutes the car is gone and some towing company is slightly happier.
- Johnny555 8y agoThere's lots of reasons to dislike DPT, but they sure are efficient at removing illegally parked cars.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> but no one complains about the cars No one in your neighborhood perhaps. This varies considerably.
- shados 8y agoA second bad thing that's equally bad to a first still ends up with double the bad things, which is worse than the single original bad thing.
- lr 8y agoThe cars parked across the sidewalk are individuals parking their car at home. Bird scooters littering the sidewalks is a business model. How do you not understand the difference?
- Dylan16807 8y agoI don't care who owns the vehicle, I care about who uses it and how much in my way it is. The car might be a rental too, doesn't really make a difference.
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- Johnny555 8y agoIf the homeowner left the scooter there would you feel better about it? What if it was his own personally owned scooter?
- akiselev 8y agoI still wouldn't be happy but yes, I would be happier. A resident homeowner/renter has far more right to utilize the public property in front of their residence than some [multi-]national corporation, just like residents have the right to vote for their representatives and the businesses don't. I tolerate far worse externalities from my neighbors because they're my neighbors and I want to minimize pointless conflict for their emotional benefit as well as mine. Business that create externalities in my neighborhood for the sake of corporate profit, on the other hand, can either pay me and my neighbors in cash to deal with the externalities (with a decent profit margin for our time and effort) or they can go f* themselves.
- nradov 8y agoThat is incorrect. Ownership of private property grants no special rights over the use of adjacent public property.
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