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I'd say the road isn't wide enough. While the vehicle is parked away from the curb, it's not egregious, and shouldn't be in the way of a tram line if the road was planned properly. The fact there isn't enough room for the tram to pass means there isn't really enough room between parked vehicles and the drive lanes in the first place.
That picture screams to me that the tram line was added after the fact without proper planning and road management.
The car was parked poorly. The parking spots can even accommodate construction vans. Here’s an angle where you can see it a bit better.
The car is parked almost half a meter away from the curb (at least at the back wheel).
I do agree that it’s a planning issue though. There is no reason that this street needs free parking spots and if they REALLY need to be there, there should be a better indication if your car is sticking out too much.
replace car parking areas with bicycle parking areas
That's a horrible parking job. They practically need to take a tram to get to the curb.
It would be so simple to paint a line on the road! I don't see one. Get out of the car, look down, re-park if necessary. And it would make ticketing easier too. Ticket if any part of the car touches or goes into the line, looking straight down. And if the other edge of the line is the max of the tram, you have the width of the line-paint as your buffer zone.
They’re trying to do that right now with blue dots but for some reason this is not road legal and needs to go through some unnecessary paperwork before it can be approved
in Strasbourg the cobblestones pattern is showing the tram space
Whaddya mean dots? Raised bumpies? I still think a solid painted line would do the job and there'd be no room for argument about whether the vehicle was in violation. I'm all for raised dots along the line, so you'd feel if your tires were over it, help you position. But you also want the fenders and mirrors inside the lines.
yeah, why would they keep those parking spots here
Usually because otherwise there wouldn't be much space left for parking at all.
In some places, these trams are gonna run through every major route, leaving no room for parking on smaller streets, and barely any parking that isn't next to tram rails on larger streets.
If you want to have both trams and cars, then depending on the city, you might have no choice but to put parking spots there given the size of the inner-city roads.