Pepsi - please don't park on the bike lane.

Yeah it's a tough problem that's only going to get worse, and there's no good solution because it's an infrastructure problem at heart. I handle social media for a company with a sizable delivery fleet. A couple times a year we get tagged on Twitter by cyclists complaining that we're blocking a bike lane for a delivery. And as a cyclist and decent human being, I empathize. I really do. But at the end of the day, I want to say "What do you expect our guys to do if there's no where to park within a 3 block radius of this high-rise? Park in the middle of the street? Park 3 blocks away and dolly a 300-lb load through the city?"

It's a massive pain in the ass for both parties, and the only way through IMO is for each of us to just be a little more reasonable in our judgments. It's like that Louis CK "Of Course...But Maybe" bit.

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