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Current state planning obligated parking bay, lane width, cycle safety lanes, are all built to expectations of dimensions in common use. We do not expect panel
by ggm 2y ago
Current state planning obligated parking bay, lane width, cycle safety lanes, are all built to expectations of dimensions in common use. We do not expect panel vans for delivery, inter-modal container width cars to routinely park in domestic setting and when they do, its hugely disruptive and dangerous on many levels. We even stipulate times such as 4am to 6am for delivery in the city, precisely to try and minimise this risk.
But we also permit people to buy oversize, overwidth semi industrial vehicles and drive them in domestic contexts, irrespective of their dimensional impact on the street and on other users of the streetscape, and on infrastructure decisions like parking bay size, minimum heights for multi storey carparks, cycle lanes with paint only barriers to entry.
To be blunt: it's fucking nuts. It's minimal regulation of a commons driven (sorry) to a ludicrous outcome. It's mad.
Add high intensity LED lights. I mean why not. Glare? Boomer problem.
I've been in big vehicles driven by naive drivers. It's truly scary. People gave very poor understanding of their lateral width, lane occupancy, other vehicles. Vision is massively restricted. And we don't seem able to say "wait.. how about if we don't do this"
- tmnvix 2y agoI sincerely believe that one of the fundamental problems of our time is individuals' sense of entitlement. That is, 'if it is is possible, there are no laws against it, I can afford it, and I want to do it, then I will'. Consideration of collective concerns are less significant. I think it is related to the rise of neoliberal politics. Individual rights over collective rights. The 'loss of community' is real and leads to actively harmful choices.