How Will the Great Slope Parking Experiment Play Out?
A headline in today’s Times: “New Parking Rules Receive a Wary Welcome.” A headline in today’s Daily News: “Joy Spreads in Park Slope as Hated Alternate-Side Parking to be Halted.” But what do you think? Alt-Side Hiatus: Terrif or Trashy? ( polls) Photo by charles.hope.
A headline in today’s Times: “New Parking Rules Receive a Wary Welcome.” A headline in today’s Daily News: “Joy Spreads in Park Slope as Hated Alternate-Side Parking to be Halted.” But what do you think?
Photo by charles.hope.
Name one other beneficiary other than lazy car owners? This is pathetic.
“And why do it in the summer, when trash is going to get all nasty and smelly?”
Because the city is run by morons, maroons and macaroons. Who’s going to clean up the streets when the Stroller mafia is in the Hamptons all summer?
I like this quote….
City law prohibits “street storage†of vehicles: “When parking is not otherwise restricted by posted signs, no person shall park any vehicle in any area, including a residential area, in excess of seven consecutive days.â€
Talk amongst yourselves…
I was totally wrong when I suggested a few days ago that this moratorium would last only a few days, arguing that even the city could change a few signs relatively quickly. Remarkable how bone-headed and inexplicable the decision to create parking gridlock for months is. Thankfully I live on a block where, due to poverty and lack of development, parking is quite easy. You just have to make sure your car isn’t shot up in a drive by shooting. Oh well…
If the city needs to do this at all, then why not suspend regulations temporarily in a much smaller area (say, a few blocks) while signs are replaced systematically throughout the neighborhood. And why do it in the summer, when trash is going to get all nasty and smelly?
Totally agree with 9:56 – There’s is really no upside to this. In the absence of rules you’ll just have more bad behaviours like people parking cars for extended periods, those cars getting broken into, garbage stuck in gutters. Duh is right…if the sign on a block has changed then enforce according to that sign.
Because of all the press, now the whole city knows where to have no alternate side for the summer…will be a long term parking lot.
A few residents on the news last night mentioned that the streets would be pretty dirty this summer. If the Park Slopers band together and work at keep the streets and sidewalks clean it won’t be a big issue.
I do think that the parking rules should be reduced to once a week…keeping the street clean and neighborhood residents happy.
“It will be good for the neighborhood b/c easier parking means more business for most of the shops and restaurants.”
How does this possibly make parking easier? It will be interesting to see what happens if people start using the streets as long term parking, the cars get broken into, bums start living in them, the windows get covered with garbage bags. Can’t wait!