Alternate-Side Suspension in Slope of Little Impact
Neither the hopes nor the fears surrounding last spring’s suspension of alternate side of the street parking in Park Slope were realized, according to the findings of the Department of Transportation. Parking spaces were not hogged by scheming commuters but nor was it measurably easier for residents to find a spot. According to a post-suspension…
Neither the hopes nor the fears surrounding last spring’s suspension of alternate side of the street parking in Park Slope were realized, according to the findings of the Department of Transportation. Parking spaces were not hogged by scheming commuters but nor was it measurably easier for residents to find a spot. According to a post-suspension survey, it takes drivers an average of 27 minutes to find a parking spot in the Slope. Ouch! Wonder what the average time is in Brooklyn Heights.
Street Parking Without Rules Is Still a Trial [NY Times]
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The total cost of owning and operating a vehicle is around $9000/year. Thats an average over the last 5 years. Of course if you live in Brooklyn and work in Staten Island its $2000 in tolls alone. If you live in SI and work in Brooklyn on the other hand its $1000. Go figure.
Now that the MTA is doing another fare hike, people will start driving? What? An unlimited 30 day Metrocard is $81. Even if it goes up to $100, how much is a car payment, insurance, inevitable parking tickets… Sorry, but that’s totally ludicrous. Every time I hear a news report about congestion pricing or bridge tolls that cries poor for outer borough folks who “can’t afford” it, I wonder how they get together the big pile of cash to have a car in the first place. Sheesh.
i call Bravo Sierra on these slopers claiming 27min to find a spot. i’ve lived in 2 different parts of the slope for 4yrs now, and probably dont spend more than 10min tops on a bad day, and i’ve been driving back/forth to work for all those 4 yrs. usually a circle or two around a couple blocks and done. also, if you park at the meters after 7pm, or near a school where you have to move by 7am, its cake.
The Christmas weekend was so quiet…in Fort Greene there was, literally, tons of parking open.
We even found an easy two-car long spot on Union in Park Slope between 7th and 8th Avenues on Saturday. I was amazed!…and thrilled.
rob, you have very low expectations I think.
unless new yorkers demand more, they will be treeated like bums and peasants by the politicians and the 100-million-dollar-bonus crowd who buy and trade them.
Then, I was a tree hugger for 7 years and 220,000 miles.
Only tree huggers drive Subarus
Vroom, Vroom….You go DIBS!!!!
I didn’t know what a Dodge Magnum was…I had to google it. At least it’s a wagon and not a SUV….my favorite is the Subaru Outback.
BRG…I was thinking of you last weekend while driving my Dodge Magnum Hemi and guzzling gas in the countryside!!!!