"Mostly concerned for the children."
I wanna puke when I hear those words.
Some guy in the neighborhood started a petition to stop delivery drivers from parking where there's a median in the road.
He claimed he's "mostly concerned for the children," I assume because drivers trying to get around them will cross over to the other side of the street to pass.
First of all, I've been a delivery driver and I know that those workers are treated like robot slaves by their employer and customers alike. They're expected to be unrealistically punctual and fast with little to no wiggle room. And now we expect them to meet those expectations while avoiding parking adjacent to medians that span 8+ houses? They would have to walk the extra distance to compensate.
I can hear it now: "Walking 8 houses isn't that much." Go walk the length of 8 houses and then back, and tell me that wouldn’t be exhausting and time consuming to do, carrying packages, on a time crunch, multiple times per day, on top of other crazy expectations from entitled people.
Secondly, this guy isn't concerned for the children. If he was, he wouldn't worry about large, high profile vehicles being stationary in the road for the duration it takes to grab a package, drop it off, and come back. He would worry about the infrastructure we accept as normal creating an incentive for shitty drivers to recklessly cross onto the wrong side of the road in order to find their way around a temporary obstacle.
I don't hear anyone creating petitions against the atrociously designed throughways we have that force drivers to stop successively at intersection after intersection, often for no cross traffic whatsoever, drastically increasing travel times throughout the whole city, because road designers are too lazy to time them right or install smart traffic lights and because the municipality wants more revenue from moving violation fines. That creates much more inconvenience and opportunity for danger than a delivery driver parking briefly next to a median and holding up minimal to no traffic on a 25mph road.
"I'm mostly concerned for the children" is just an excuse using the wellbeing of kids to elevate a stupid power fantasy of his, at the cost of putting increased expectations onto minimum wage workers.
Some guy in the neighborhood started a petition to stop delivery drivers from parking where there's a median in the road.
He claimed he's "mostly concerned for the children," I assume because drivers trying to get around them will cross over to the other side of the street to pass.
First of all, I've been a delivery driver and I know that those workers are treated like robot slaves by their employer and customers alike. They're expected to be unrealistically punctual and fast with little to no wiggle room. And now we expect them to meet those expectations while avoiding parking adjacent to medians that span 8+ houses? They would have to walk the extra distance to compensate.
I can hear it now: "Walking 8 houses isn't that much." Go walk the length of 8 houses and then back, and tell me that wouldn’t be exhausting and time consuming to do, carrying packages, on a time crunch, multiple times per day, on top of other crazy expectations from entitled people.
Secondly, this guy isn't concerned for the children. If he was, he wouldn't worry about large, high profile vehicles being stationary in the road for the duration it takes to grab a package, drop it off, and come back. He would worry about the infrastructure we accept as normal creating an incentive for shitty drivers to recklessly cross onto the wrong side of the road in order to find their way around a temporary obstacle.
I don't hear anyone creating petitions against the atrociously designed throughways we have that force drivers to stop successively at intersection after intersection, often for no cross traffic whatsoever, drastically increasing travel times throughout the whole city, because road designers are too lazy to time them right or install smart traffic lights and because the municipality wants more revenue from moving violation fines. That creates much more inconvenience and opportunity for danger than a delivery driver parking briefly next to a median and holding up minimal to no traffic on a 25mph road.
"I'm mostly concerned for the children" is just an excuse using the wellbeing of kids to elevate a stupid power fantasy of his, at the cost of putting increased expectations onto minimum wage workers.
