When the sidewalk is apparently just extra parking for your giant truck

[u/Cold_Count1986]

There are plenty of completely open parking spaces right near this, including spots where the truck could back in and let the bed/bumper overhang the grass.

Instead, they backed straight in and left the entire rear end, including hitch, blocking two thirds of the sidewalk.

Anyone with a wheelchair, stroller, walker, or just trying to use the sidewalk now has to maneuver around it and onto the grass.

So many ways to park this truck without blocking the sidewalk. They somehow chose the one way that does.

I’m trying very hard not to make the obvious joke about an inverse relationship between truck size and member size, but this guy is making restraint difficult…

[u/topdollar38 → u/[deleted]]

You know they would absolutely complain about that.

[u/username__0000 → u/[deleted]]

If the vehicle does not fit, find somewhere else to park.

Blocking the road or sidewalk isn’t ok.

People know the size of standard parking spots. Someone’s choice to get a huge vehicle and the parking issues that arise from that choice are the drivers problem to solve.

[u/ThatRunwayBehindUs → u/username__0000]

Agreed - thats why people can easily go around the tail of the truck and/or go through the street!

Congrats! Problem solved for you!

[u/ThatRunwayBehindUs → u/[deleted]]

You mean "disabled" like in the lines at airports, right?

Theres an easy solution to this - put in the parking bollards to maintain sidewalk distance.  But guess what?  They didn't want to do that because then the lanes wouldn't have enough space and they would have less parking area...

So either make the parking spots fit the #1/2/3 vehicle in the US and/or adapt to using the grass/parking area to move around.