• BlackLaZoR@fedia.io
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    2 days ago

    Unless there’s a bunch of pedestrians around. No driver ever wants to navigate through crowd

    • Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf
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      2 days ago

      That is bullshit. In pretty much all German cities the central shopping mile is closed off to private vehicles. Only delivery services and obviously police/ambulances are allowed to enter during shopping times. It works. Had always worked. Stop making shit up to prop up your own shitty arguments.

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        2 days ago

        In the English town nearest me, all shops have delivery bays at the rear. Yet still they are allowed delivery access on the pedestrianised street in front of their shop, and a few do still use it which is rather annoying. I avoid those businesses because I think they’re selfish to bathe shoppers in fumes and brake dust.

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          Do they have the means to deliver from the rear? I would think that it’s more convenient for the business too if they could do that.

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            17 hours ago

            In depends what you mean by the means. They all have rear doors and either stock room doors or shop entrances back there. Some might have to repair their rear doorbells and some might have to instruct their suppliers to deliver to the rear.

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      2 days ago

      We have streets here that become pedestrian streets during the summer. During those times, delivery trucks come early in the morning while the streets are nearly empty and they stop right in front of the business they’re delivering to. The rest of the year, they have to stop on the side streets because that’s the only place where they don’t block car traffic. They have to wheel everything much further and leave one thing or another unattended while doing so.