Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking Placards

Congestion Pricing Gets a Warm Reception in Manhattan

By Brad Aaron | | 10 Comments
  Hundreds of Manhattanites braved an indoor congestion zone Thursday night, struggling to find a seat before the New York City Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commission hearing. The packed forum attracted hundreds of spectators, leaving balcony-only seating in the Hunter College auditorium. Over eighty turned out to voice their support and concerns, prevailing over previous congestion […]

Times Calls for End to Free Parking Monopoly

By Brad Aaron | | 47 Comments
One of the most repeated criticisms of congestion pricing is that the city isn’t taking relatively simple measures within its control to ease traffic-related problems. The Times today offers its take on three of them. Taxi stands. Anyone who has tried to get a taxi in New York in the rain, particularly at rush hour, […]

RPA Refutes Anti-Pricing “Alternatives” Study

By John Kaehny | | 9 Comments
On Wednesday, Jeffrey Zupan, Regional Plan Association’s transportation analyst, issued a comprehensive rebuttal of the main traffic reducing measures proposed in Keep NYC Congestion Tax Free’s anti-congestion pricing report, “Alternative Approaches to Traffic Congestion Mitigation in the Manhattan Central Business District." Thanks to Zupan, Transportation Alternatives and other critics, four fundamental problems with the Keep […]

Congestion Pricing Should be Attached to Parking Reform

By Aaron Naparstek | | 36 Comments
The daily scene on SoHo’s Crosby Street, jammed with illegally parked government employees. The Observer reported on Wednesday that Walter McCaffrey’s Committee to Keep New York City Congestion Tax Free recently solicited UCLA parking policy guru Donald Shoup to do a study of curbside parking policy in New York. Carolyn Konheim, a Brooklyn-based transportation consultant […]

Hello, Dolly!

By Aaron Naparstek | | 45 Comments
A knowledgeable tipster submitted this gem to UncivilServants, the web-based watchdog for government parking abuse in New York City. The yellow Porsche Carrera, above, was spotted parked in front of a fire hydrant on the east side of Seventh Avenue, in Park Slope, Brooklyn, between Sterling Place and St. John’s Place at about 7:30 pm […]
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