Re: [OT] Judges discover constitutional rights to bike lanes and also drug use in homeless shelters

On 2025-05-06 3:28 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
 

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We used to be able to park in front of the house overnight if we wanted,
for example if there was an overnight guest who'd come by car. But the
city banned overnight parking many years ago.

 Parking infringes upon shared use of the public way, and overnight
parking usurps the public way for private use. There's no issue with
short term parking but there's sure as hell an issue with long term
parking.
 

I don't remember the
rationale they used but I think they were worried about snow removal
being more difficult if cars were parked on the street. Then a few years
back, they put in bike lanes - bike lanes that basically only run down
our street but don't connect to anything else, making them esentially
useless for getting around town. Then they put in a cross walk which has
an island in the middle of the road but which is almost never used. (I
can see it from my kitchen window.) Because of the island, it is now
illegal to even STOP on our block so people actually risk a ticket even
for stopping for a moment to drop someone off. Progress!

 That's ridiculous. The whole point of a road is to access property. Of
course it's there for pickup and delivery, and to allow people to get
dropped off or picked up.

Agreed. I should probably have mentioned that I'm not aware of anyone who actually GOT a ticket for stopping on our block but the signage implies that it could happen.
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Rhino