Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking Placards

State Senator Marty Golden, Flashing Parking Placard and Threatening Arrest, Bullies Cyclist Out of His Car’s Way

By Ben Fried and Brad Aaron | Dec 12, 2017 | 69 Comments

In Albany, Golden is one of the chief obstructionists of expanding New York City's speed camera program, which is impervious to placard corruption and has flagged the same car he was riding in last night for several violations over the past few years.

The Human Resources Administration says it took this city car away from a serial placard abuser. But what about the next staffer who drives it?

Serial City Parking Permit Abuser Snagged by Streetsblog Placard “Crackdown” Smackdown

By Brad Aaron | Dec 7, 2017 | 22 Comments

After Streetsblog published photos of a Human Resources Administration employee repeatedly stowing a city-owned vehicle in no parking zones in Inwood, the agency says it has taken action.

The illegally parked blue Mini has a ticket on the windshield. The illegally parked city-owned Prius, sporting a Human Resources Administration placard on the dashboard, does not.

If de Blasio Was Serious About Ending Placard Abuse, This Serial Parking Violator Would Have Stopped By Now

By Brad Aaron | Dec 4, 2017 | 18 Comments

A placard abuser can be publicly shamed into abandoning an illegal parking spot, but the same vehicle owner will keep using the perk illegally somewhere else. Without real enforcement and a reduction in placards, it's just whack-a-mole.

No Evidence of de Blasio’s Placard “Crackdown” on Adams Street in Downtown Brooklyn

By Brad Aaron | Nov 16, 2017 | 19 Comments

Placard-abusing government employees make the Adams Street bike lane an obstacle course, just as they did 15 years ago.

DOT says it's up to NYPD to keep placard holders from parking in this crosswalk, where an NYPD placard-holder was parked Tuesday.

NYC Cedes Newly Upgraded Inwood Crosswalk to Placard-Abusing City Employees

By Brad Aaron | Oct 18, 2017 | 19 Comments

The situation at the Inwood crosswalk shows how the placard system is directly at odds with DOT safety projects.

Getting detailed forgeries out of circulation is a step forward for parking placard reform, but most placard abuse doesn't involve clever fakes like this. Image: NYC Department of Investigation

Hooray for Placard Fraud Busts — Now When Will de Blasio Address the Real Problem?

By Brad Aaron | Oct 4, 2017 | 19 Comments

Much more common than a detailed forgery are parking violations committed with real placards, or the use of informal signifiers of authority to scare away enforcement agents.

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