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i honestly thought amazon went electric everywhere but good for him
They have A LOT of them but really only ~20% of their fleet. Hopefully this will encourage them to accelerate that transition. There’s also “Amazon Flex” which hires contractors like Uber.
Amazon made 80 billion in operational income (after all expenses, pre-tax) in 2025, this is 0.001% of that. It’s like fining a person making $31k a year $3.10.
Any fines that go towards the people are good fines for a company like Amazon, but it’s not enough
I think you may have replied to the wrong person.
I think it’s to suggest that this fine won’t do anything to motivate Amazon to go full electric.
That is what I was suggesting
It will, along with many many other factors that are already driving the transition.
I doubt that Amazon is slow rolling it. Demand for EV trucks is insane. I was working on procuring some in a different industry a couple years ago, and we just could not get them in any meaningful quantity. Lead times were years out. I think we actually got one during the time I was on the project.
To hear my brother who works at a legacy manufacturer, nobody wants them so they’re not worth building. 🙈
Rivian is already selling to other companies. Amazon could have very well paid them to remain exclusive until they completed their fleet.
Good. Fuck amazon. Fine them harder.
Every single freight company does this. Every single one.
Cops too, they even add a larger fuel tank to keep the engine blowing smog 24/7
Good.
- My Name is Mamdani.
Meanwhile the mayor of my city removed all the free parking downtown. Now the entire oldtown area is struggling to keep afloat because no one here can afford to hang out in an expensive boutique shop or hipster bar and pay for parking while they do it.
Guess the mayor forgot he was supposed to find an alternative mode of transportation so customers can “hang out at the expensive boutiques”.
Conveniently also forgot where all the money was going too because the only thing they seem to pay for is more flock cameras.
As a New Yorker, you’re using public transportation. What are you even talking about? Plus the parking was taken up by commercial or abused by long term/andandoned and public always used the paid garages. Ask me as a transplant of how I difficulty figured all this out…
Isn’t there places you can park outside of manhattan and then take a train in?
Parking in Manhattan is an atrocity I would not subject my worst enemies to.
Parking on the street inside a busy city is a luxury. Why should it be cheaper than parking on a parking lot let alone free?
Because Wichita is not a busy city and they also tolled the free parking lots they built a decade back. If you want to go to the cultural heart or file a document at the courthouse you better be prepared to walk two miles or pay for parking.
I get that free parking is a novelty everywhere else, though I compare that to wondering why anyone would want automated tax returns when you can just pay for turbo tax, but Wichita is new to that and of all the options to pad the revenue stream the mayor picked the one that takes it out of the citizens and small businesses.
That sounds like a great improvement.
I’m not so sure. If it’s done to encourage public transportation and biking, and the money generated by parking funds increased non-car infrastructure like bike lanes etc, then sure.
But just slapping parking meters on formerly free parking and the money simply going into the city’s general fund (which is what I’m sure is happening here) I wouldn’t call it an improvement.
Agreed, without proper investment, just making parking more expensive doesn’t improve anything much.
Good. We could easily decrease our fuel usage by a double-digit percentage just by minimizing all the idle time of vehicles whether it be police, construction workers, delivery drivers, or just soccer moms or people sitting in their car in a parking lot.
Wtf is with all the people just sitting in their cars staring at their phones with the engine running
There’s someone virtually everywhere I go. I don’t think it used to be this common…
I walk laps around the parking lot during my lunch time at work and soooooo many people go out to their car and sit there with the engine running. For no fucking reason. Like if it’s too hot or cold, don’t go to your car. They do it when it’s nice out too. Insanity. Crack a window if you need a breeze or something. So dumb
But the woke outside air has chemtrails that turn the frogs gay! Gotta have my murican A/C.
Smh my head
School buses! Ours are supposed to have a limit of a few minutes but no one follows it.
Great: Amazon has been using EVs for their delivery vans near me, maybe this will push their adoption in more places!
The Daily Show did a report about it and idling fees are reported by citizens which then get % of the fine. Are some people about the get nice payouts?
