Rüsselsheim, Germany

  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    71·
    10 months ago

    One of the 4 lane streets in my city got the extra lanes turned into bike lanes. Not just painted, they’re raised up from the car lane, and then further raised for the sidewalk, proper curbs between each mode of travel. Absolutely fantastic.

    PEOPLE NOW PARK IN THE BIKE LINE ALL THE FUCKING TIME.

    There is no parking along this street, but since the businesses and apartment buildings need vehicle access there are extra wide sections of sidewalk, marked specifically for stopping with a motor vehicle in a way that doesn’t completely block bikes or pedestrians.

    Drivers will still stop in the bike lane RIGHT GODDAMN NEXT TO THESE.

    Drivers are slowly wising up to it, but I still have to veer onto the car lane about once a commute to round a car neatly blocking the bike lane.

    • Diplomjodler@feddit.deEnglish
      29·
      10 months ago

      Just report them. I’m getting increasingly tired of this shit and I have zero patience for these people.

      • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        31·
        10 months ago

        Oh, I do.

        But there are enough idiots in the city for a different one to make the mistake for every day of the year for years to come.

        What amazes me most is people looking at this busy street with a bike lane, clear of cars for hundreds of meters, and thinking “whoa, so much available parking, I sure wonder why I’m the first one to think of using it”.

  • Che Banana@lemmy.mlEnglish
    34·
    10 months ago

    Obviously not Spain, here we need your two flashing “parking lights” going and you can park w h e r e v e r you want.

    …apparently

      • tabris@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        10 months ago

        I’ve always wanted a beanie with two flashing orange lights, so I can put it on and sit on the hood of cars parking illegally while flashing their hazard lights. If they ask/tell me to move, I’ll just reply “it’s okay, I’ve got my parking lights on” and remain sitting on the hood for another few minutes. One day.

      • CatoblepasEnglish
        5·
        10 months ago

        Of course they’re for emergencies, you only use them when you really need to park!

    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      10 months ago

      That’s universal. In college I always carried packets of ketchup or mayo to put on car door handles when people left their cars unattended in no parking zones. 4 ways on, of course.

    • Pappabosley@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      We call them dickhead lights here, because they indicate someone is being (or about to be) a dickhead

  • thepiguy@lemmy.mlEnglish
    15·
    10 months ago

    The exact same thing happened to me yesterday lmao. I was biking to the bus station and I just see a stupid ram taking half the bike path. Not even sure why these are allowed to be imported, should be plain illegal.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
    13·
    10 months ago

    If it ain’t big enough to take up 5 parking spots, isn’t tall enough to where I can’t see a 6 foot tall person directly in front of my vehicle, I don’t want to drive it because I’ll feel like a sissy girl and not a man!

    ~ The foreigner American I assume drives that vehicle

  • whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    12·
    10 months ago

    “look, I don’t want to bother other people on the road! it would require them to do a maneuver to overtake my car! I’m just being nice!”