• Kanda@reddthat.com
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    7 days ago

    Don’t they have traffic wardens in Cambridge? They’d be fined and possibly towed as well here

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      You’d think, but there are three levels of responsibility: the city council, the county council, and the local police. Calling any one of them to complain and demand enforcement results in them redirecting you to one of the others.

      Basically, unless you’re blocking car traffic, no one with power cares.

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        Just gotta wait for that cyclist that turns into the road because a car was blocking him. Then it’ll be all “oh no how could this ever happen?”

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      The police very, very rarely do anything about this kind of thing here. It’s not just Amazon; even everyday random people just stop in the middle of the street to pick people up or drop people off.

      The worst offender is Uber Eats, which regularly completely blocks up roads near restaurants.

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      Plus the wardens have to watch the vehicle for 10 minutes before issuing a ticket. The driver would have completed the delivery and gone within that 10 minutes.