Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking Placards

Has Time Run Out on the Parking Placard “Crackdown”?

By Brad Aaron | May 27, 2008 | 6 Comments

Chinatown, December 2007: As good as it gets? Early this year, Mayor Bloomberg’s office announced across-the-board reductions in the number of government-issued parking placards that could be allotted to city employees. And while the city looks to be following through with the cuts — to the chagrin of some among the entitled motoring class — […]

25,000 Fewer (Official) Parking Placards for City Employees

By Ben Fried | May 1, 2008 | 26 Comments

It took a little longer than expected, but the City is significantly shrinking the pool of parking placards available to public employees. The total number of placards allocated to certain departments — most notably NYPD — has been reduced from roughly 80,000 to about 55,000, as reported by the Times, News, and Post this morning. […]

Randi Weingarten Still Doesn’t Get It

By Brad Aaron | Apr 16, 2008 | 20 Comments

Back in January United Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten protested Mayor Bloomberg’s mandate to reduce the number government parking placard handouts. In a letter to the mayor, Weingarten called the move "deeply troubling," and claimed that taking free parking away from teachers — who, unlike tens of thousands of other government employees, "are not […]

Internal Affairs Crackdown Nets Placard Abusers

By Brad Aaron | Apr 9, 2008 | 4 Comments

They’re summonsing their own, and then some. The Post reports that NYPD Internal Affairs launched a sweep last week against illegally parked placarded vehicles and fake parking permits, resulting in 178 tickets, nearly two dozen towed vehicles and the arrest of one retired officer. The operation targeted Lower Manhattan and "government and courthouse hubs" in […]

Demo Today Against Park-Hogging Judges

By Brad Aaron | Mar 20, 2008 | 8 Comments

If you have some time to spare early this afternoon and are in the vicinity of Columbus Park in Downtown Brooklyn, Transportation Alternatives will be holding a demonstration at 1:00. It seems some judges who have been using this public space as a parking lot may take legal action to retain access for their […]

DOT Study Measures Lower Manhattan Placard Abuse

By Brad Aaron | Mar 17, 2008 | 4 Comments

A Department of Transportation study released Friday shows just how out of control placard parking is in Manhattan. The 187-page report [PDF], accompanied by some 223 pages of maps, was undertaken to assess "how placards are used in Lower Manhattan," and to determine if placard users are taking up more space than is allotted […]

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