Pols, DOT: Parking Permit Program For Many 'Hoods
At Monday’s forum about residential parking permits, the hottest topic of discussion was which Brooklyn neighborhoods would be included in the program. According to reports on Streetsblog and Brooklyn Streets, Carroll Gardens, people from some neighborhoods charged that the current plan (which for the most part only covers areas close to Downtown, as per the…
At Monday’s forum about residential parking permits, the hottest topic of discussion was which Brooklyn neighborhoods would be included in the program. According to reports on Streetsblog and Brooklyn Streets, Carroll Gardens, people from some neighborhoods charged that the current plan (which for the most part only covers areas close to Downtown, as per the map based on an an ’04 study above) would cause too much traffic and jostling for spots in un-permitted neighborhoods. A representative from the DOT, however, said that RPP would be available for a number of neighborhoods on an opt-in basis. Councilman de Blasio (other politicians in attendance included Councilman Yassky and Councilwoman James) floated an idea for placing RPPs all over the city near subway lines, therefore discouraging drivers from park-and-ride behavior. A pilot RPP program could go into effect as early as spring 2009, though that target date hinges on the congestion pricing timetable.
DOT: Relax Brooklyn, Parking Permits Not Just for Downtown [Streetsblog]
RPP Forum Wrap-Up [BSCG]
Downtown Brooklyn RPP Study [Brooklyn Chamber
I am surprised at the naivete of so many new yorkers on this issue. Do they really think that congestion pricing is about the environment or helping people get through traffic? It is about revenue. The State has never gotten over mounring over the lost commuter tax. They need the dough. They are like an insatiable addict. more more more.
The RPP is not going to help you. It is going to give the DOT even more power to raise revenues by writing more parking tickets. I’m sure the rules will be so complex and poorly explained that they can count on at least ten million bucks a month in parking fines.
Wake up and smell the coffee. it is not about helping poor children with athma or the envornment or even helping business tycoons drive through deserted streets faster, this is New York, it’s about the money stupid.
BTW, Yasskey has spots reserved for him and his staff on State Street between Boerum and Court already. That block and Schermerhorn — bith of which are full of residential buildings — are, however, excluded. So, if you don’t live on a “brownstone” block you are screwed!
11:56 is comparing apples and oranges. I don’t see what’s immoral about parking permits. Preventing people from coming into neighborhoods based on race is clearly immoral. I shouldn’t even be responding to this. Delete!
Resident parking is the WORST!!
If you’d ever lived with it, you’d know.
Suddenly you can’t take your car ANYWHERE (except for outside the city)…
Another opportunity for corruption… How much money will it take to grease some palms and get a few extra permits for you and your friends?
People who support this are stupid. It is a direct infringement on your right to free passage.
So, now they’ve got you on parking, the MTA, and congestion pricing… how long till they tax walking?
Paraphrasing 11:48:
A recent study found that 56% of violent crimes were committed by black men.
Excluding black men from Park Slope will work to reduce violent crime.
Another recent study found that 62% of street littering was done by children between the ages of 7 and 12.
Excluding children between the ages of 7 and 12 from Park Slope will work to reduce street littering.
Slippery [Park] Slope, eh?
what about clinton hill and other hoods? especially near subways station where all this people out of town will be parking to get the subway into manhattan!
This amounts to appropriation of a public resource (paid for and maintained by taxpayers) by a special interest group.
As a Park Slope car owner, I would benefit from this but it’s just wrong and unethical.
So many Park Slopers are all about “saving the puppies†but work damn hard to exclude the “others†from their enclave (whether the “others†happen to be homeless women at the shelter, ex-convicts at a halfway house or non-resident parkers).
Time to take your hypocrisy and stuff it in your tailpipe.
A recent Transportation Alternatives study showed that about 50% of the traffic in Park Slope was just circling for parking spots. This program will work to reduce that amount of traffic, and will prevent even longer parking searches once the congestion pricing plan goes into effect.
The new battle of the “have and have nots”
As in cars.