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(DIR) Post #AzNcURPctMn8P4oMyG by timrichards@aus.social
2025-10-19T21:48:53Z
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Was up early this morning because this evil very noisy truck woke me up at 5:50 am. I went down to see what the hell it was doing, and they were sucking out by pipe some weird crumbly waste from the basement of one of the buildings in the alleyway. I told them to tell their boss it's a problem because 200 people are trying to sleep in the building next door (ie our building!). Such are the trials of city living... It never occurs to these companies that people might be living with earshot of their middle-of-the-night noise. :/#Melbourne
(DIR) Post #AzNcUSgg9S1gMFnVBo by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-19T21:50:29Z
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@timrichards As a more civilized city than NYC you probably have some rules about trucks parking like that during the day.But since they must park AND make a racket they might need to get that whole street closed. Anyway I wish you luck on better sleep.
(DIR) Post #AzNccTji8SlBva2RPs by timrichards@aus.social
2025-10-19T21:51:55Z
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@futurebird yeah I suspect they don't have a permit, and I'm going to complain about them to the city council today. They're usually okay with voice complaints.
(DIR) Post #AzNcjK4GTt8Py6uqJs by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-19T21:53:12Z
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@timrichards That is such a cute truck. Was it electric?I'm a little into small trucks since I don't understand why we can use them in NYC.
(DIR) Post #AzNctOJPYW1K1mnkYq by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-19T21:55:02Z
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@timrichards Did you know that every grocery store in NYC, and we have SO MANY has a bunch of trucks pull up *in front of the store* during the day and that is how they get the food into the store? It is MADNESS. I don't know how we even survive.
(DIR) Post #AzNd915PfzaOcyhkm0 by kirakira@furry.engineer
2025-10-19T21:57:49Z
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@futurebird @timrichards i have so much appreciation for people who can parallel park a box truck in new york
(DIR) Post #AzNdECEjeAm8eqXEMy by timrichards@aus.social
2025-10-19T21:58:44Z
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@futurebird I didn't notice, but I think it's bigger than it looks in the photo in any case. Check out these cute little street cleaning vehicles the council uses though, they're very cool: https://aus.social/@joannaholman/114209534790607930
(DIR) Post #AzNe1wL51oJFpbDqQS by gbargoud@masto.nyc
2025-10-19T22:07:44Z
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@futurebird @timrichards I wish we had a cross shipment center on the edge of the city that unloads the giant trucks and puts the boxes in electric Kei trucks.It would cost more in labor (can also read that as create jobs) but when I see a massive box truck with like 5 boxes in it because it's the last delivery of the day I wonder how much more efficient it really is to consolidate them that far.
(DIR) Post #AzNexTELPZN2LeVKeO by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-19T22:18:10Z
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@gbargoud We could have a little freight subway that ran around the town and bikes and tiny electric truck to get things to the door. This probably isn't practical... but I like to fantasize about a freight subway since it seems like the most ant-like solution.
(DIR) Post #AzNfhh8m1fqEoJwLrs by graydon@canada.masto.host
2025-10-19T22:26:28Z
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@futurebird @gbargoud Streetcar gauges are generally very carefully different from freight rail gauges because people in the 19th were pushing boxcars down the streetcar tracks late at night as a means of delivery.Flatbed cargo trams with wee electric trucks on the flatbeds would work fine, and save some digging.
(DIR) Post #AzNhAJdWamYaGZXEm0 by bucknam@mastodon.social
2025-10-19T22:42:52Z
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@futurebird @timrichards reminds me of a certain block in downtown Denver where, without fail, a restaurant food delivery truck will be parked in the bike lane whenever I am riding that street.