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I guess it's okay to park on Park Avenue because it's called Park Avenue.
this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2026
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The last time I ate outside in New York City was I was having Sunday brunch with a girl I was dating and I was just about to get into my eggs and a diesel truck pulled up parallel to where we were sitting. When it started up it belched black smoke all over the place right next to where I was eating. I just looked at my food and pushed it away and sat there, I was not going to eat it. Never outdoor dined in New York again.
Well duh, it's Park Avenue
I saw a guy with a shirt once that said something like "street parking is theft" and I was really excited. Gave him two thumbs up and he was confused until he looked down at his shirt.
I'm that guy that always forgets what shirt I'm wearing when someone says "nice shirt". Gotta look down at my chest. I do like how universal this types of quick interactions are with strangers. Something wholesome about it.
I actually strategically wear Mario Bros. shirts when I'm meeting new people, since that's a fandom that is largely universal and people always seem really happy to see them.
Good idea. I should get a Luigi shirt and I'll get dual fandoms.
cars are a plague
I also wouldn't use my car if I had such a good spot. You're never getting that again if you move it now! Better take a taxi.
At that point sell your car? You're paying for parking, insurance, registration, and maintenance. Then you just take a taxi to avoid driving your car, so more $$ being wasted.
The signs say "Park," what do you expect people to do?
The frustration here is that the common refrain whenever somebody proposes a bike lane anywhere is, "It's bad for business! Where will their customers park?!"
It's completely bogus, which a snowstorm makes manifest: Without the snow, we can pretend that these cars belong to the drivers allegedly stopping to patronize local businesses. With the snow, we see the truth that space is here used by three people to store their private property for a week. This example illustrates why experience shows, over and over, people walking and biking are better for business than people in cars. Hundreds, or even thousands, of potential customers who can easily stop in, versus drivers (non-customers) who are so close, but so far away.
In short, it's not that people did what the city intended, it's that the city is kneecapping itself.
I live near Seattle. We don't get snow much. But when we do people avoid driving in it because they lack experience and a lot of roads just don't get cleared.
So, those couple days are like a car free paradise. It's so quiet. I can walk around with my kid and not worry about cars. Seriously, hang out with a two year old for a day and you'll realize how much of our world is literally just a death trap. When it snows and no one is driving it's just so peaceful.
We don’t get snow much. But when we do people avoid driving in it because they lack experience and a lot of roads just don’t get cleared.
and have some gnarly ridgelines and hills all over the city.
Swing, go down slides, play some games involving balls, tag?
To be fair... I feel like "buried under a metric shit ton of snow" to be extenuating circumstances. How are Canada's bike lanes when it gets this bad? Because I'm not sure how to solve the "plow makes piles of snow" problem
How are Canada’s bike lanes when it gets this bad?
They get plowed by these tiny plows, cute AF.
Some bike lanes are prioritized for plowing. It's easier when the bike lanes are separated from the road.
Talk to Denmark, not Canada. https://www.architekturaibiznes.pl/en/snow-this-is-not-a-symbol,42971.html
In the regions that have proper bike lanes they plow them with little atv things. Throw on some studded tires and it ends up being safer than the rest of the year when its bad enogh for drivers to stay home. Sadly the routes were only completed after I moved to an area much shittier to bike in so I never got to try out the fixes to my former wipeout zone
Same way you clear car lanes. Plow and truck the snow. Salt.
If there's not a car in the way, you can plow travel lanes. In big cities, snow is literally trucked away, so it's not like you'd be moving the problem further up onto the sidewalk.
You'd think. I'm in the suburbs of NY, and during this last snowstorm, my neighbors and I all made sure our cars were off the streets for the plows. The plow came once, in the middle of the storm, got the middle of the road and left. Infuriating.
In Canada a lot of bike lanes are just shitty painted lines on the shoulder and turn into the snow bank all winter.
like, a bike lane will be “we painted the solid white line three feet out from the curb, mind the grates and trash”.
Yeah, that's what we have out here at best.
Montreal has a ton of separated, two-way bike lanes.
K-W is toying with them, but hasn't really committed yet.
Now, painted bike gutters is what you get the most of, by far...
Just build parking garages on the border of the city and only allow utilities, taxis, and busses to drive....