That's cute, but wrong. Even the most law-abiding delivery company is going to end up with some parking tickets, so it makes sense to budget for them.
You may as well decry the budgeting for legal as saying the company wants to break the law.
You may as well decry the budgeting for legal as saying the company wants to break the law.
Why? If you don’t park illegally you don’t get tickets. They aren’t random or accidental.
Downtowns address this problem with yellow commercial loading zones but those don’t really exist in residential neighborhoods.
1. There's no quick conversion in the middle of the street. It's a curb, which would require hopping, which is nearly impossible for an ebike and a dangerously unstable maneuver anyway.
2. There are cars blocking visibility with the sidewalk. If you hop onto it, you might strike a pedestrian you didn't see. Perhaps a short one, such as a child, who are unpredictable anyway.
3. Going to the right of the truck is a great way to get doored in the 0" of clearance between the truck and other parked cars. If it's the truck, enjoy your guaranteed head injury from the truck door 3 feet off the ground.
4. Biking on the sidewalk is illegal in many cities. So is parking in the bike lane, for that matter. Expecting one party to break the law because of a failure to enforce a separate law is unreasonable.
The "no cars in the city" philosophy is not one without challenges or setbacks - getting rid of parking in sunset would suck, but it would motivate the creation of more and better public transit, which is a better solution than cars by nearly all marks.
So they shouldn’t stop there then. Deliver the last mile on foot or using a cart. If it’s too large for that I guess you can get some kind of permit like they do for construction.
It'll cost more than the current situation, sure, but it is an option.
Walking from a free parking spot to the delivery location is not included in the price. Unless all delivery companies are forced to follow the parking laws (for real) at the same time they will just go out of business.
The problem is that the end user don't know what quality of delivery they will get, so they choose the cheapest, and there is a race to the bottom, like flight tickets.
When comparing prices the end user doesn't know that they might be beaten off the plane by security to make room for a business class late arrival end user, so the risk is not priced in correctly ...
More likely than getting rid of the bike lane, the laws surrounding it will be amended to allow deliveries.
Incorrect; if you don't park illegally, you are less likely to be ticketed each time you park.
On an individual scale, this might result in never getting a ticket, on a large delivery company’s scale, it's pretty much guaranteed not to.
Rhetoric is fun; it's easy to prove both a proposition and its opposite.
The only reason to have a lawyer is because you broke the law, got it.
Why? Doing everything correctly and within the law costs money.
I admittedly have no idea how these situations are handled by accounting, but that seems like it would be the solution to me.
But yes, the company looks at this like so:
* Option 1. Park in front of the building (illegally) and deliver the package. 2% chance of getting a $200 parking ticket.
* Option 2. Driver finds a legal spot, average time: 15 minutes. Add 20 minutes of walking time to the delivery. Requirement: 8x more delivery vehicles required to service the city.
Option 1 is much cheaper.