Ethics-free Parking?
What can be done about people who park by chasing a streetcleaner and ducking in to a space open from those that have temporarily double parked for said streetcleaner? I know it’s America..free to do as you please..but c’mon. Isn’t this a totally ruthless and slimy tactic? Aren’t there certain unwritten rules that we all…
What can be done about people who park by chasing a streetcleaner and ducking in to a space open from those that have temporarily double parked for said streetcleaner? I know it’s America..free to do as you please..but c’mon. Isn’t this a totally ruthless and slimy tactic? Aren’t there certain unwritten rules that we all go along with so that this cauldron doesn’t bubble over?
Nope – no potential inconvenience. I’d concede that point if the double parking were such that the drivers left their cars and disappeared, but seeing as how the entire block is dp’d with drivers all sitting there ready to put their cars back, no one is getting boxed in.
So if you were looking for parking and found a car pulling out of its spot, so you stop past the space and put your blinker on and wait for it to open up, then when it does another car zips around the corner and pulls into the space…that’s cool?
Well, I guess I’ll keep playing the game.
Still, I’m never going to chase ambulances on the Belt!
Double-parking is illegal and potentially problematic, even when it’s customary.
The OP’s argument depends on extending this custom ad absurdum.
If you want to live on the wild side and possibly piss off a neighbor by double-parking for street cleaning, that’s fine. I do understand this custom. I do it on my own street.
But to whine that someone has come along and parked their car while yours is still double parked? As if your (illegal, potentially inconveniencing) double-parked status somehow earns you a spot on the other side of the street?
Get the fuck out!
Glad to see you have scruples. I advise next time you be behind the street cleaner to get that spot ! Good luck.
Yeah, it’s kind of ruthless, but, come on, are you surprised? you live in nyc, not mayberry.
My husband has been known to follow a racing ambulance on the Belt just to get the open highway move. See ya suckas!
I don’t condone that stunt but parking is a sport and OP has to learn that fact.
I love the idea of the person who’s breaking the law by double-parking complaining about other people’s ethics.
If there were plenty of parking spaces, I might agree with your point.
But as there are fewer parking spaces than vehicles, I don’t see how anyone can claim dibs on any of them. Street parking is first come, first serve. It is not a seniority system.
If you want your own space, pay for it. Find a place with a driveway, or use a garage.
Otherwise, realize that street spaces are public property, and that they are there to be used by whomever comes across them first.
Yeah… I have no sympathy for the “double parking” system. Just because it’s a tradition doesn’t make it OK. I’ve been blocked in (in Prospect Heights) by this great system… with the parking “attendant” nowhere to be found. If part of the “tradition” is making sure double parking doesn’t cause restriction to you non-paying neighbors, then the attendant should be there and visible for the ENTIRE period.
Also – I’ve gotten a street cleaning parking ticket (forgot to move) while NONE of the 20 or so double-parked cars were even glanced at by the cops. Not to mention, it made it appear like *I* was making the street close to impassable… and not simple preventing street cleaning because I wasn’t parked in a *different* totally illegal way.
I had no idea that my text implied both my income AND my biking habits.
Ask for parking advice, get a class war.
The way it generally works on my block is that the cops ticket right before the street cleaner but not after.The double parkers all wait in their cars for the street cleaner to pass. A sanitation dept. worker precedes the cleaner and puts the neon stickers on the cars that haven’t moved, then they head up the street with the cleaner right behind. Everyone double parked moves right back to where they were. The whole process usually about 20 minutes or so.