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>the system has a loophole: large swathes of the city are designated as roads, sidewalks, highways (which is a technical term for the road allowance). These are
by zeteo 13y ago
>the system has a loophole: large swathes of the city are designated as roads, sidewalks, highways (which is a technical term for the road allowance). These areas of the city are completely free to use, for anyone, on the condition that it's a short-term, passing-through, sort of use.
You're making it sound as though food trucks stop in the middle of the road to sell their stuff. In fact they use designated parking where it would be completely legal to keep the vehicle for the same duration otherwise. Also, the business model of selling from a truck isn't going against some core concept of land ownership or something (witness ice cream trucks, which have operated with little friction for 80 years or so). The problem is with the "system" defending entrenched interests against innovation and using BS regulations (see the article) to do so.
- nijk 13y agoI actually don't know how ice cream trucks, with their hideous noise pollution, stay on the right side of the law.
- arobbins 13y agoThink of the children...
- BCM43 13y agoThe music has actually has been mostly banned in NYC.
- squozzer 13y agoJust as a humorous aside, in Ye Olden Days, when no one but a prostitute knew the going rate for a condom, the ice cream trucks only rang a bell. But the tunes bring "attention-getting" to another plane. "Jingle Bells" in July? That's when you know the person who picked the songs needs a bit more instruction in American culture or they work for a large retailer.
- warfangle 13y agoTell that to the ice cream truck that idles with the song playing half a block away for twelve hours every saturday...
- tapatio 13y agoI'm guessing you weren't reared as a kid in the U.S. The ice cream truck coming to our street was the coolest thing when I was a kid.