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723 points farslan | 1 comments | 12 May 25 15:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.216s | source
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yardie ◴[12 May 25 19:00 UTC] No.43966413[source]▶
"There’s an underground parking garage for the residents, but half of it is empty and filled with 20-30-year-old cars whose owners are no longer known."

Years ago I bought a flat and it came with an underground parking garage. Once we were settled in I break the garage lock and inside was an old Peugot, cans of old motor oil, and all sorts of junk shoved in between the garage door cracks. It was hell to get rid of the thing. The tires were flat. No title meant no tow trucks wanted to touch it and no scrap yard was willing to accept it. After too many months I was able to get the city to declare the car derelict. And then I had to pay a scrap yard to accept it.

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1. rtpg ◴[12 May 25 23:41 UTC] No.43968474[source]▶
I _really_ appreciate Tokyo's system of basically forcing you to affirmatively declare your parking spot when you buy a car, on top of the usual "pay extra rent to have a parking space" thing that happens in many spots.

While it doesn't stop cars from being abandoned "randomly", just the entire principle of having a paper trail for these things and creating a bunch of incentives to make sure that parking spots don't turn into trash heaps[0].

Especially now that I live in a place where street parking is a prime resource and yet people _who have garages_ still choose to street park out of convenience...

[0]: not always of course, I know about the trash houses