Pols Rallying for Residential Parking Permits
This Monday, several City Council Members and a number of neighborhood groups are holding a forum for Brooklynites to chew on the idea of residential parking permits. The town hall-style meeting will focus on whether the permits, which would probably cost a small annual fee, could help alleviate curbside parking problems and traffic in Downtown….
This Monday, several City Council Members and a number of neighborhood groups are holding a forum for Brooklynites to chew on the idea of residential parking permits. The town hall-style meeting will focus on whether the permits, which would probably cost a small annual fee, could help alleviate curbside parking problems and traffic in Downtown. Council Members David Yassky, Letitia James and Bill de Blasio have organized the event, which is expected to draw several hundred residents, and DOT comish Janette Sadik-Khan is scheduled to attend. Councilman de Blasio sees the forum as the first step in developing parking strategies for all of Brooklyn. “Lack of a coherent parking strategy has been an ongoing problem in Brooklyn, de Blasio told us. I think this forum represents a step in the right direction, and I look forward to extending this conversation to communities throughout the borough. Regardless of the fate of congestion pricing—which would almost certainly increase competition for spots—Downtown’s population is expected to swell in coming years, thus exacerbating the already great demand for curbside parking spaces. Councilman Yassky said it is long past time for New York to consider adopting the permits, especially in Downtown. Other big cities have used this strategy successfully to reduce traffic and ease parking difficulties, he said. Four years ago, when the Bloomberg Administration was seeking approval for new development around Metrotech, Deputy Mayor Doctoroff promised—in writing—that the administration would try residential parking permits in the surrounding neighborhoods. The administration needs to make good on this promise.
The forum will take place at 7 p.m. on Monday, February 4th, at the St. Francis College auditorium on Remsen Street in Brooklyn Heights.
Congestion Pricing and Resident Permit Parking [Brownstoner]
Photo by mike lowe.
I live in Manhattan. I don’t own a car, nor do I want one. My biggest issue with potentially moving to Brooklyn is that I can’t just hail a cab from anyplace. Those days will be over if I move.
parking permits in the mentioned neighborhoods will trigger surrounding neighbors to apply for permits for neighborhood or become the replacement park-n-ride nabe.
It will have a chain reaction.
If the nabe is having parking problems before Congestion pricing, it just means the status quo will be kept.
$15 to $25. It should be $200/month, or there won’t be enough spots. Then the money can go to enforcement and improving public transportation and the buses.
That’s all we need, pols “helping” us find a place to park. RUN FROM THIS!!!
I am sure the town meeting is going to be full of car-haters who believe people should walk or ride bikes and should be punished for owning a car AND RUINING THE PLANET!!!!
It will provide a new stream of revenue for the counterfeiters who can sell stickers from all over the Boro to folks who like to ocassionally leave their neighborhood and visit other neighborhoods.
“I would be in favor of a $15 to $25 per month fee to park overnight on the street, available only to those whose cars are registered and insured in the area.”
This is the STUPIDEST idea yet advanced here.
Permit parking is just a way for nimby nimbsters to lock up the spots in their hood on the cheap. I say that you have no more right to cheap parking outside your stupid brownstone than someone driving in from Canarsie for the day.
If you REALLY want to open up spots, charge out the ass for the permits.
2:20 raises a great point. Resident parking permits would require that people actually register their cars where they live. Now in Brooklyn, the rich register their cars at the country place in Columbia County, the poor don’t bother with insurance, and a relative handful of us suckers in the middle pick up the tab for the entire accident pool.
I grew up in the middle of Boston, and we’ve had permits since the 70s. Yes, parking is impossible, but do-able if you’re a resident. And it gets rid of all the other people who’d want to park downtown. Guess what? People take the train.
I’m in favor of it because then all the cheaters with out of state insurance will have to get NYS plates if they want to park. No more PA and SC license plates.
I too am against a residential parking. for all the good reasons mentioned above. And for all the snarky anti-car-owner commentators, may I say that in my family we have three little kids; one toddler and two babies. That means three big ass car seats to go anywhere. Cabs are not an option. Subway and buses are impossible. We need our car. When the kids get bigger, maybe we’ll do zipcar.