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Practical answer: because they haven’t installed concrete wheel stops on the ground in that parking lot. If that’s a used walkway, they should.
I know, people are assholes, etc. I’m just mentioning a solution that is actually available, where unassholing everyone isn’t.
I don't know, man, I'm still routing for having a bulldozer drive over random walkways throughout the day.
Bad at parking or got a car that just won't fit into parking lots? → Enjoy a newly shortened car.
I’m just mentioning a solution that is actually available, where unassholing everyone isn’t.
Beautifully put. So often there are simple solutions to these problems.
I don't think, in this case, it's due to people being assholes. More like, people are dumb and completely oblivious to their surroundings.
While we can't unasshole everyone we can start ticketing ppl who park outside the lines. In most cities there's traffic wardens anyways, so that should be cheaper than installing bumpers on every parking spot.
Yes, though the other reason to have bumpers is physical safety. This is a walkway. If someone is just a little bit negligent, they could run over someone. Ticketing them doesn’t help at that point. And the cost of that life is more than a million bumpers. So again, as much as I’d like to punish bad parkers too, as emotionally satisfying as that would be for me, the practical solution that will just work is to add the bumpers.
Really they should just have some concrete parking blocks in that lot. Not sure if I can really blame the drivers here… it’s just a bad setup.
Yeah, this is more of a design failure than people being assholes.
The design failure is only failing to anticipate that people are going to be assholes. The two are not mutually exclusive.
The design failure is not following parking lot design best practices and installing parking stoppers or bollards on spaces that are directly next a walkway. People are going to pull forward to the only point of reference they have which, because there are no lines or stoppers, is the sidewalk curb.
The teal car clearly all the way up on the sidewalk is definitely an asshole though.
Does it really make someone an "asshole" for just pulling up until their tire hits something? Feel like this is something 95% of people would do without realizing it until they got out and saw the sidewalk.
Like do you guys really think these people are intentionally blocking the path or something?
Shouldn't the driver be able to know where their car ends without a concrete barrier?
Probably because people are bad at parking and it’s easy to pull forward till you feel your tires bump against the curb. Only problem is that with increasing safety standards usually resulting in longer hoods and bigger engine compartments for crumple zones, you get this.
It’s not bad parking, lots of places use parking stops and you’re told/taught to pull up to them or the curb to park.
Where I am, if you don’t have parking stops, your curb must be 3m wide, to account for hood overhang and leaving the required space for handi egress.
This is why parking spaces tend to have those horizontal blocks. It’s to stop dumbass drivers like those depicted in the picture from blocking the sidewalk.
Unfortunately, with the rise in insecurity compensators (“sports” utility vehicles and light duty trucks). Those measures are quickly defeated.
I live in the southern states of America and the amount of dOdGe RaM 1500 hD/f150s and “luxury” SUVs just blatantly blocking the sidewalks in urban settings (downtown) is too fucking high. If you are visually impaired expect to run into many of these idiot’s cars/trucks.
Fuck cars.
I'm sorry to say that I'm often one of those dumbass drivers (though I drive a little Civic). I need to do a better job of not pulling so far. Pedestrians and bicyclists deserve a sidewalk free of obstacles, and It's not good for the car either.
Those are called a “tire stop” in english (american). Many US cities require them to avoid this very problem…
Most people aren't doing terribly here really. It's not ideal but it's not horrific, until you get to the light blue/turquoise SUV 3 or 4 cars down. That fucker has clearly mounted the kerb and without the car there this picture looks pretty normal.
Also I don't think these pictures are of the same line of cars, should be able to see the roof box on both pictures but you can't.
very suspicious framing
They want their cars scratched, that's why!
As a small kid i once rode my kickscooter in a similar parked car, cause to be honest I wasn't looking and also wasn't expecting a car to pretrude like one meter into the sidewalk. While I was definitly careless (and also like 5) you should expect accidents happening when you leave stuff in places they don't belong.
In the US, half those vehicles would have trailer hitches waiting to bruise your shins.
It's often because people line up their car according to the car next to them. If one person does a lousy job and the next person copies them it begins to spread like a virus.
As a wheelchair user I absolutely hate when people do this! I ended up forced to go around the back of the car which is way less safe.
This is why parking spaces have the yellow fucking things in the front.
My whole neighborhood looks like this and I fucking hate it. Sometimes I fantasize about having a giant Flex and cut every car where the sidewalk begins
Lots of people are bad at parking. It can be a little difficult to judge distance so people go until they bump something. I think having cameras around the vehicle would help, if people use them, that is.
Anyone else questioning whether there are the same location? Might be, and I know people park like that, it’s just… weird angle and easy to throw together as rage bait.
I get that this is obnoxious, but I would probably make the same mistake. It's just a habit to pull my car up to the "front" of a parking spot. Most curb parking that I'm familiar with includes spacing for car overhang that is apart from the sidewalk or parking blocks, so this seems like understandably thoughtless parking, but it's also really poor parking/sidewalk design.
It's much easier to pull fully into a spot then it is to try to guess how far back from the front to park to leave enough space for the sidewalk but also not have your ass hanging out in the way of through traffic. The simple solution here is to put down parking blocks a few feet away from the sidewalk, and I have no idea why they haven't done that. The cobblestone parking area even extends directly to the sidewalk, which is also where (and probably why) the most egregious parking is occurring. This is just really poor parking-location design all around.
A distraction for sure, doesn't excuse for the inconvenience of course, but if you ask why is then is because:
Of course they could have bought a small car instead and avoid invading the walkway, a small car surely also would have paired well with the smallness of their brains and/or appendages, but the lack of taste is since long time well past endemicity levels.
Cause we own the roads and the platforms.
Whatdya mean you wanna walk
Most of our parking spaces have terrible indicators for whether or not you're actually close enough without having your rear-end hang out of the lines. So people tend to park with their wheels nudging the concrete just to make sure.
Why blame the parking space. Do drivers near you just have zero spatial awareness?
Yeah cos fuck pedestrians, that's why. /s
Fucking piece of shit drivers.
Solution: cover your hands with jelly and make a big scene of climbing over the cars to use the sidewalk, leaving jelly handprints everywhere.
If confronted about the jelly prints, just say you were eating a really big donut.
Because fuck people in wheelchairs I guess...
You just have to take your place with force, jump on the cars to stay in a straight line and the owners will think twice next time! ;)
