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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I’d be 100% happy if I could park in my neighborhood and that’s it. I don’t drive to other neighborhoods that often and when I do I often park at meters and people usually take the subway to visit me.
The RPP and the CP that Mayor MB has floated are both very intelligent ways to solve enviro-congestion in NYC. People attack parts of his plan as (theoretically) unworkable. Indeed, in some instances, his critics may be luckily correct. However, upon implementation, if there were unintended (and harmful) consequences to the RPP and CP, then City Hall will make adjustments to correct for same. This is NOT a mayor intent upon wealth redistribution towards the affluent NOR committing enviromental crimes upon the poor. If CP and RPP need fine tuning this will be done for the benefit of the common good. One may not be inclined to give an executive such as President Bush such autonomy, but Mayor Bloomberg deserves the chance to implement and test drive the the plan and to make the adjustments so that it is fair to the greatest number of current (and future) residents of NYC.
I’m sick of all the PA “visitors” parking in Brooklyn – parking should be for people who pay to live here, this includes high auto insurance. Resident parking permits will help reduce some insurance fraud, as well.
I actually agree with anon 10:38. At least where I live, if you’re not in a street cleaning space the night before you’re in trouble. The solution: make all street cleaning during the middle of the day (ending 11 AM or later). Like we have in my part of Fort Greene. Commuters can’t reasonably get on the train after they park at 11, can they?
Another bureaucracy, more paperwork and little benefit to some and pain in a** for others. Another regulation to make living in NYC more a headache.
And with congestion pricing and resident permits…get ready for big surge in ‘handicap’ permits because they will be exempt and easy enough to get. If you could see the # of SUVs parked on the block of midtown where I work who have NYC DOT special permits, you’d know that anyone with a connection can get them. Another scam.
So, if my family wants to visit me they have to register at the police station?
Is that a joke? I think it is better to leave this to a capitalist system, rather than trying to micromanage people’s behavior.
And as to it being a ‘three year pilot’ – do you think there is any chance the city will give up the revenue once the program is in place?
They are already fighting over how they will spend the money!
This is a dumb idea which they should forget about.
We lived in Philly for awhile, which has resident permits, but not by neighborhood. They cost around $40-50, iirc. So long as the city continues to sweep the streets, I’m all for it. For it to work in NYC, though, I think the whole city would have to be in one zone. There are a lot of times we drive to visit friends in parts of Bklyn, Qns not served by public transport.
Another good thing: you did have to present registration and proof of insurance to get the permit, so it eliminated a bit of the riff raff. A 2 hour exception for nonresidents makes sense to me.
I suspect there are more cars than actual street parking space especialy place like Park Slope where there are so many multi-family townhouses and apartment buildings. How the system works? Residents with permits still have to fight for available space?
When you can’t find parking it means that parking spots are too cheap. Permits should be expensive and street parking should not be free.