don’t want to be too much like a caricature of myself but I realized today: it’s the delivery apps. underpaid burrito taxi drivers are under such time pressures and potential sanctions, of *course* they started parking on the pavements outside restaurants. that normalized it for everyone else
Thought I was pretty engaged in politics, especially UK politics, but I must’ve missed the moment it became legal to just park your car on the pavement if you want to.
May 9, 2025 20:12I’ve seen it on double yellow lines, on single yellow lines, and no lines at all. if there’s no enforcement, why wouldn’t you as a driver just mount the kerb and get your car further away from the other cars that will be speeding past it? the incentives are as obvious as they are perverse
I don’t know how it is in other cities, but here in liverpool the pavements in the busiest areas have completely buckled under the weight of these cars, every other flagstone cracked in half and sunken into the ground. it’s appalling and it makes me furious
