Tim Redmund at 48 Hills reports on Google buses resting/idling/parking on Valencia Street.
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and this is news?
it’s news because they’ve been “given” specific areas to “park; idle or otherwise not get in the way of normal traffic so they’re avoiding paying the fees that are levied for stopping in their dedicated spaces
Nonsense. They still have to pick up at their designated stops and pay the fee for that. The question here is more where do they wait when they arrive early?
The answer is surely the place where they cause the least congestion and the unused middle lane seems reasonable. Certainly better than hogging a Muni stop for 20 minutes.
Funny, because I see similar things by cabs, airport shuttles, delivery trucks, private cars and even bikes.
And yet Redmond only notices it when it just happens to be a type of vehicle that he has an irrational dislike of.
Can anyone spell “confirmation bias”?