[czinck]

For what it's worth, that's already a thing in NYC. NYC shares the ticket revenue for illegally idling vehicles with the reporter, and so some people have made 6 figures in one year reporting idling vehicles[1]. There was a push to get a similar provision in a recent bill about illegal parking in bus and bike lanes, but they ended up just allowing citizen complaints with no bounty payout.

[1] https://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/nyc-anti-idling-la...

[potato3732842]

That guy's continued breathing is a testament to how good NYC's surveillance dragnet is or at least how good people think it is.

I can't imagine doing what that guy does at the scale he does. Like you can only wrong so many people until you run across the guy for whom you are the final straw. Though I guess that might be why he mostly runs a ring these days instead of being on the street.

[woodruffw]

Nobody is going kill someone for reporting idling trucks. The drivers of these trucks don't care; the company tells them to idle and swallows the fine (typically bartered down in bulk).

[potato3732842]

If you go around doing it you'll make a name for yourself. Couriers, ubers, delivery drivers, they all have social media. Eventually you'll run across the guy who "wrong pedals" you.

I wouldn't risk it.

[woodruffw]

The idling law in question is for commercial vehicles, meaning trucks. It has nothing to do with couriers or delivery drivers.

(The city has other, unincentivized, idling laws for other classes of vehicles.)

[potato3732842]

I mean delivery like box truck, not delivery like doordash.

I was imprecise to lump them all together like that.

[woodruffw]

Sure, I suppose it could happen in that case. There's no public evidence of any such occurrence, however; most of the city's truck traffic is big companies, and I don't see why any driver would risk prison time to stave off an idling ticket that Amazon, etc. is just going to negotiate down in court anyways.