10-06-2017, 12:17 PM
One last futile try...
I think my point was that the behaviour could have been left as not illegal when it was in fact not consequential. No parking signs covered up with black bags. Signs saying that parking is temporary. Whatever it is. When there was work that needed to be done, they could have signed it as such.
The point being people are pretty good about obeying laws they understand and pretty poor at obeying laws they think are pointless. And I wonder if we've created bad habits by actually getting people use to being able to break "the law" w/o consequence. It's hard to signal to people at this point that circumstances have changed and there actually are consequences to not obeying the law.
It's not. Because people parking on the tracks have known that they have almost 0 chance of inconveniencing someone or causing any issues. We know this because its been happening all along. People know that handicap people exist in the world and could need that parking at any given moment. And so its only the real jackasses that park there anyway.
Anyway, probably futile, and sorry for bringing it up...
(10-06-2017, 11:33 AM)Viewfromthe42 Wrote: I also fundamentally believe we can't encourage bad behaviour, or currently-illegal-but-not-yet-as-consequential-as-it-will-become behaviour.
I think my point was that the behaviour could have been left as not illegal when it was in fact not consequential. No parking signs covered up with black bags. Signs saying that parking is temporary. Whatever it is. When there was work that needed to be done, they could have signed it as such.
The point being people are pretty good about obeying laws they understand and pretty poor at obeying laws they think are pointless. And I wonder if we've created bad habits by actually getting people use to being able to break "the law" w/o consequence. It's hard to signal to people at this point that circumstances have changed and there actually are consequences to not obeying the law.
(10-06-2017, 11:33 AM)Viewfromthe42 Wrote: The idea of "oh the trains aren't here right now, and I don't see a GrandLinq crew here at this exact instant, I can park here" is the same mentality of someone who parks illegally in an accessibility parking space. And both are wrong. And with several thousand parking spaces in uptown, there is zero excuse.
It's not. Because people parking on the tracks have known that they have almost 0 chance of inconveniencing someone or causing any issues. We know this because its been happening all along. People know that handicap people exist in the world and could need that parking at any given moment. And so its only the real jackasses that park there anyway.
Anyway, probably futile, and sorry for bringing it up...