Found the location on street view. The bus lane is a weird partial bus lane that only exists on part of the block. Most of the lane is available for parking.

The bus lane areas are painted red, and there is a sign at the start saying no parking/tow away zone. But they aren't aligned properly. The red pavement starts about a car legnth before the no parking/tow away sign.

In most traffic codes, signage takes precidence over painted markings on the street. So as far as I can tell, the truck in the picture is parked legally, despite being on red pavement.

This is some particularly stupid street design, and this post is an incredibly manipulatively framed picture, with the sign just out of frame, but not an example of illegal street parking.

I used to, then I did it in heavy traffic, and saw this guy go crazy. He got stuck behind me, but was trying to catch up, and I noticed his window was down. I figured he wanted to yell at me, but he never got the chance.

Two days later they arrested a SwastiKKKar owner after he took some shots at someone who flipped him off on the same highway.

Same guy? I like to think so. SwastiKKKar owners are weirdos.

Only in minecmaft, of course.

These cars take pictures of everyone that approaches the vehicle.

Only 29 US states require a front plate

It's not a parking meter. It's one of those electronic paying stations (pay box). You can zoom in. It even says so.

They're there because the city needs to pay the private company that owns the parking spots for the space the bus lane occupies

(Actually not sure about this specific case, but wouldn't be surprised if it was, since Chicago Parking Meters owns all the parking meters too)

Chicago Parking Meters - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Parking_Meters

It also spies on others as well, because the exterior cameras are also uploading to Tesla.

That's the law in Illinois as well.

That looks like a cybertruck, does it even have paint to be damaged?

I miss the brief moment Tesla dealerships were being vandalized or set on fire.

Woah now, are we sure killing somebody is the right call here? It's only illegal parking after all.

The bus lane is red! That proves it!

I see this suggestion quite frequently and outside being a juvenile hot take, it is from a practical perspective, a terrible idea.

Most obviously, colliding with other vehicles would make bus passengers experience far worse.

There would be enourmous public backlash against the government regularly destroying private property like Mad Max.

Busses aren't designed to flip cars out of the way, and would suffer undue wear and tear, costing the city money.

No space for a bike rack up front.

Eventually a bus would flip a car out of the way onto the sidewalk, and it would roll over onto a pedestrian and kill them.