Congestion Pricing and Resident Permit Parking
Regardless of your position on the Bloomberg administration’s proposal for congestion pricing in Manhattan, it’s not hard to imagine how the implementation of such a plan could have a very negative trickle-down effect for those parts of the outer boroughs that are both close to Manhattan and serviced by major subway lines. As Sheldon Silver…
Regardless of your position on the Bloomberg administration’s proposal for congestion pricing in Manhattan, it’s not hard to imagine how the implementation of such a plan could have a very negative trickle-down effect for those parts of the outer boroughs that are both close to Manhattan and serviced by major subway lines. As Sheldon Silver said, “Some of those areas will become parking lots for the people driving around looking for parking spots in order to avoid congestion pricing fees.” To counter such criticism, Bloomberg has has floated the idea of making resident-only permit parking available (for a modest annual fee) in neighborhoods like Park Slope, Downtown Brooklyn and Long Island City. Queens Councilman John Liu isn’t buying the idea. “It doesn’t necessarily improve the situation, it just shifts the boundary of contention,” said Liu. “It sounds great, but I think the implementation would be a hard stretch.” Of course, there’s also another reason that residents of certain neighborhoods may want parking permits soon: Atlantic Yards. Are you in favor of resident-only parking permits?
Bloomberg Eying Resident-only Parking Permits [NY Daily News]
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re: 11:12 What’s fraudulent is how high insurance rates are in NYC thanks to long running insurance scams and historically high vehicle theft rates which have come down dramatically in the last few years. Still waiting to see it reflected in my insurance rates…. Also, let’s not forget, parking tickets generate a lot of revenue for the city.
BH- This is an administration that supported and aided the AY project. So they have zero credibility with me or anyone else who has followed this issue.
Nor do they have any credibility in caring about the envirnonment that citizens live in. They have completely sold out to real estate developers.
Sorry, i wouldn’t trust them around a glass corner and this is just another piece of garbage they are foisting on us in a grab for more money.
How many of you who live within a few blocks of a subway station, actually have open street parking spots available on your block for commuters available to arrive in morning and park all day?
Please tell me where. Cause when can’t find something around me, I’ll know where to look.
they are talking about neighborhoods with very good subway access (which is why people would park there and ride in). So, leave the car and use the subway.
Congestion pricing, as proposed at launch, does nothing other than penalize those who use the Brooklyn or Manhattan Bridge – the $8 dollar INITIAL congestion fee is offset by the existing tolls at other bridges and tunnels. So, this is a long, eco-re-framed, convoluted way of Bloomberg finally getting tolls on those 2 bridges – which has been a bug up his butt since before he came to office.
While we certainly have a congestion problem, we have it in NEW YORK CITY, not just Manhattan. In fact, I think congestion is worse in many parts of Brooklyn than in much of downtown Manhattan… and I’m not talking about people driving TO Manhattan, I’m talking about people driving around in their own borough.
So really this boils down to an anti-borough tax. A tax that is felt more by lower and fixed income working class. A tax that says my crosstown limo is going too slow, you people from the Brooklyn – Take the subway.
If you want more people to use mass transit… make it better. Add LOTS more trains to existing lines. Add bus lanes and electric buses.
When you toss in that now we’ll need Resident Parking Permits, (really great for businesses in those neighborhoods!) and over One Thousand Orwellian cameras and I really don’t understand the wimpy oppostion.
There are better ways to improve mass transit and limit CO2 then this antiborough tax!
This will NOT increase Parking Garage construction. Nowhere in brownstone brooklyn or Harlem or Bronx is zoned for this and DOB rarely gives a new permit for same. Usually, must be grandfathered or part of new apt building construction.
The intention behind congestion pricing is to create a dis-incentive to using vehicles for unnecessary trips. Resident parking permits function in a similar way. If you want to visit someone in a nearby community with resi parking permits you will try to take public transportation. I also agree with Anon 11:07 – this will help deter insurance fraud; which if you live in Brooklyn you know is rampant.
who is BH? someone who works in Bloombergs press office?
gimme a break.
The second so-called “problem” noted by Anonymous at 10:40 is actually a feature, not a problem, of permit parking IMO — it’s outrageous that so many people flaunt the registration laws by registering their cars out-of-state.
Not only is this defrauding New York out of revenue, but it’s also insurance fraud that drives up the cost for drivers who follow the law and register in New York. I’d like to see a single good reason why people should encourage this type of fraud.