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Re:A Tragic Loss by mschuster91 on Friday July 01, 2016 @05:20AM (#12014754)
With the pedestrians and bikers, I mainly meant when large trucks are driving in the cities to serve e.g. supermarkets - one I worked at, right in the center of Munich, had a huge 40-ton truck serving it each day.

It's dangerous as hell, but impractical to do any other way...

Re:A Tragic Loss by Swizec on Friday July 01, 2016 @05:29AM (#12014780)
Maybe it was just my neck of Europe then. Trucks would only go to supermarkets on the big roads where there's strict physical separation between traffic and everyone else. They're also position on the edge of the city next to the ring freeway so that trucks have a short path from freeway to supermarket.

Deliveries inside the city are done with smaller lorries which are a bit safer maybe. If not safer, definitely more practical on tight inner-city streets.

I don't think it's practical for trucks to be designed as pedestrian safe as modern city buses are, so it's better to keep them away from pedestrians as much as possible.