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Cat poni, Whorseman of Apocalypse

street cleaning today, it was announced by multiple signs (creating obstacles on the sidewalk, ofc), yet they are still towing about 15 cars still parked there, do they like not give a fuck or what
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@pony It's a classic for residents to abandon their car in the street for weeks at a time (if they go on vacation?). People think it works like private storage

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@pony are they just towing them around the corner? Or to some compound outside the city?

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@jon i don't know really, but i doubt they can just dump them around the corner

however the parking for towed car is far from the outside of the city, some are even in rather central locations

(https://www.sshmp.cz/odtahy/odtahova-parkoviste/)
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@pony in Berlin they just tow them around the corner, so you never solve the problem. Hence the question!

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@pony @DiegoBeghin wtf that's what I pay for my streetside parking each month
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@jon it's only for street cleaning this time, the cars are there legally and it's a proper designated parking space (however much i'd rather have wider sidewalk and maybe a tree or two), but i think they always tow to a dedicated spot, the problem is they rarely ever do it in the first place, it's very rare
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@eal @pony Yeah it's an order of magnitude off of what it should be (and funny that Prague converged on more or less the same amount as Brussels)

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@pony @jon My experience with this is reserving the parking in front of a building for moving in/out. One time there was a person who didn't notice the sign. Didn't have to tow but did have to wake them up early in the morning lol. (Someone could identify the car owner)

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@DiegoBeghin @pony this was an idea I was thinking about to clear Berlin's abandoned cars - crowd-fund the hire of those signs, and get cars towed. But then seeing that Berlin just tows to the next available spot you just shift the problem a few metres!

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@sfsworms @DiegoBeghin @pony Yep. Brussels does this well! I had to help a friend remove his car from such a compound many years ago!

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@pony Sometimes they place sign after the car is parked. Life is not fair...
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