City Councilman Proposes New Rules To Alternate Side Parking

[hrmjustin]

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — New York City drivers could get a break when it comes to alternate-side-of-the-street parking rules.

Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, D-Washington Heights/Inwood, has introduced a bill that would allow drivers to park on a street again after a street sweeper has moved through.

Currently on alternate-side days, drivers muset move their cars for periods of time — generally 90 minutes to two hours — to allow for street sweeping, and anyone caught parking during those times could be ticketed.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/03/31/city-councilman-proposes-new-rules-to-alternate-side-of-the-street-parking/

[SummerSnow]

1. That would be great.

[hrmjustin]

2. Yes it is. In my area of Bay Ridge people get ticketed at higher rates than thevrest of the city.

[PoliticAverse]

3. Clearly someone doesn't understand about 'revenue generation'... n/t

[hrmjustin]

4. True. I doubt this will get through.

[Squinch]

5. I want to know why some streets ABSOLUTELY have to be swept every weekday,

and some are swept once or twice a week, and they are fine, and there is little discernible difference between the dirtiness of the streets?

[hrmjustin]

6. Great question.

For years Bay Ridge was targeted by the city with tickets. In large part because people pay their tickets. When the rest of the city had been excused from alternet side of the street parking we still had to go through with it. Several neighborhoods were targeted this way.

[Squinch]

7. Wakefield has once a week cleaning, and the cops seldom ticket, and the streets are the same as

everywhere else in the city.

[hrmjustin]

8. The streets are finally looking better hereafter the bsd winter.