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Here in KC they've started fining heavily for people who block the rails.
Me? I'd rather they put a cowcatcher on the front and destroy the cars instead.
In Melbourne (Australia), they removed the cow catchers, but not the aggression. You get one, maybe two courtesy bell rings before you get punted.
Why not both? License plate reader that send automatic fine ( like speed camera ) and a cowcatcher that desteoy it after also the car owner should pay for the removing of what left of the car after
Car rolls onto the sidewalk. Crushes a pedestrian.
Car had a baby in it. Baby dies.
Car belongs to beloved old man neighbor. Whole city now hates the train and gets it removed.
This suggestion keeps coming up, and it never gets less juvenile. The solution is simple - aggressively fine these people. Scale the fine based on income. If it sits there for more than a minute, call a tow truck to move it like an adult. And then install a knee high concrete barrier around the tracks to stop cars from getting there in the first place.
If police cars can ram other vehicles, so can streetcars. The strawman nonsense you posted isn't a consideration for high-speed pit maneuvers by the former, and it would be even less relevant for gentle nudges by the latter.
Idk these are flatly not comparable situations. A high speed chase ending in a pit maneuver is EXTREMELY dangerous before, during, after, and even around without being touched. A streetcar pushing a parked vehicle a handful of feet at low speed while ringing a warning bell with a driver keeping an eye on the situation is MUCH safer.
If someone leaves their baby in a car and parks it on the tracks, then it's their fucking fault if the baby dies. The parent/owner of the car should be charged with negligent infanticide in that case.
Also, no one who owns a tesla is "beloved."
With a bloodthirsty absolutist mentality like that, have you considered a career in ICE?
Sure, but do you wanna be the driver that now has to deal with having killed a baby?
Yeah fick that baby. Fancy being left alone in a Tesla, useless child.
Cops have done all that shit, thousands of times, and no ones ripped them out by the roots.
They give them fines and might get the car towed, but most places they fail to make the fine an actual punishment if you are wealthy: fines should be based on income and wealth.