Originally Posted by
professorscott
You know, there are systems like this all over the place, and have been for years and years. There is abundant information about them. Read up a little before you start presenting hypotheticals as obstacles. For the question about buses stopped in front of the streetcar, they won't be. Bus stops will be in the parking lane; the streetcar will be in the lane to the immediate left of the parking lane.
Typically how parking is managed is, before the streetcar starts running, lines are painted on the left side of where cars are supposed to park, and every car projecting a millimeter beyond that line is ticketed with a warning that on streetcar day such cars will be towed. Inevitably somebody complains to [[say) channel 2, which does a story, then everybody gets the message. It will happen, but not so frequently as to be a problem. Retrieving a towed car is a frighteningly expensive and difficult proposition.