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: “Put it in a garage”–where? In Park Slope, for instance, I know of two garages total, to serve 200 blocks or whatever the neighborhood adds up to.
If resident parking is implemented in PS the boundaries will shift even more toward Victorian Flatbush. On the weekends on Marlborough and Rugby Roads you may see only ten cars parked on the entire length of each block between Church and Dorchester. Anyone frequenting a business on Cortelyou Road can easily find parking. During the weekdays, these streets are literally parking lots for commuters who drive to the neighborhood, park their cars and then get on the Q/B train at either the Cortelyou, Beverley or Church subway stations. I see the communters return in the evening and drive off, often times I’ve seen them dump their trash at the curb or block dirveways. Unlike our PS and FG/CH neighbors we have ample parking due to most driveways being long enough to accomodate at minimum four cars so parking is not an issue for homeowners. My driveway will probably fit eight cars. I notice that many of the cars parked have “Town of Babylon, Hempstead, etc.” stickers affixed to the windshields, which leaves me to believe that many all day parkers are not even NY city residents. Brownstone Brooklynites could not park in the town of Hempstead all day with out paying. I am all for resident parking as long as all Brooklyn residents are considered residents.
You see posters? Anonymous 3:55 has posted a truly helpful tip that is not only practical but also in keeping with the best New York City traditions of getting around stupid laws.
Handicap permits are the way to go.
I’ll try e-bay first.
Resident parking stickers will also create a nice opportunity for the local entreperneurs to produce fakes. How long do you think it will take them?
25 minutes? 18 minutes?
Where there is a will, there is a new york way. God bless you guys.
There has been quite a lot of research on congestion pricing. Anyone seriously interested in it could learn a lot doing a simple Internet search. Those who claim it has done nothing to reduce congestion in London are wrong on the facts.
If Bloomberg achieves congestion pricing, I will have to revise my negative opinion of him (based mainly on Atlantic Yards). This will be one of the single most important changes for the better that New York City will ever see.
We are already paying for congestion in many ways — in our quality of life and in our health. We simply have to find a way to reduce how much people use their automobiles in New York City. Those who oppose congestion pricing have not offered any alternative on how to get this done.
The fear that there will be a ring-effect is unfounded — this hasn’t happened in London.
The majority of people driving into Manhattan’s central business districts have a viable mass transit alternative and most of them CHOOSE to drive rather than take mass transit because they prefer the privacy you get in an automobile.
No one is arguing that we have to get rid of cars altogether (although as a bicycle commuter, I wouldn’t mind — there’s nothing like commuting by bike to inculcate a passionate hatred of automobiles). There will likely always be a place for automobile travel — for the elderly and disabled, in bad weather, when you have to transport something heavy, and so on.
But if you are driving your car into Manhattan every day from Bay Ridge, just to take a location mentioned in the comments above, you are very likely a government employee who enjoys free parking.
I haven’t learned as much about residential parking permits as I have about congestion pricing, so I don’t have an opinion about it, other than to say I don’t think there’s much danger of a “ring effect” with congestion pricing, so probably we don’t need it.
I have to say, this is one of the more exceptionally ignorant comments threads I’ve ever seen on Brownstoner.
Much easier to solve all your parking problems and don’t have to pay for congestion pricing is get a NYC DOT handicap permit. (and if you can’t get one, file for your grandmother and use it for your car. Or, there will soon be plenty on the black market)
Read the details on city website
Where can I park with it?
This permit allows the driver to park at most curbsides on city streets including:
In all No Parking zones except those marked as taxi stands; “No Parking” or “No Standing” spaces authorized for doctors, press, diplomats and government agencies; at parking meters without depositing a coin; in “No Standing, Trucks Loading and Unloading” zones except for specified restricted hours.
Put your car in a garage. Do you live in downtown brooklyn and use it on a daily basis? What the hell for? Do you commute to a job in the suburbs?
Call you insurance company and tell them your car is in a garage and that you live in New York City (not PA or NC or FL or NJ) Assuming that you were legally insured to begin with, your insurance will now go down (just a little).
Now park in your garage. You won’t get tickets anymore. I bet you got at least 6/year. You also won’t get dented, broken into, keyed, etc…. Now your actual cash outlay on your car goes down.
Now tell your employer that you want your T.R.I.P. tax deduction, and your garage fees get paid pretax.
Now you don’t have to park in my neighborhood and take the subway anymore. Why the hell did you want to do that anyway?
Those old pictures of new york also show diptheria, rampant slums, horse poop, segregation, etc… Some of them also show prohibition.
My rule of thumb is that if something will make my life easier and less expensive I’m for it. If something involves having to buy an additional license for my car or pay an additional toll to drive on the broken down streets, I’m agaisnt it.
These two ideas, congestion pricing and neighborhood parking stickers are full of shit. I do not want to have to go to City Hall and spend an hour and forty bucks for a sticker that isn’t going to guarantee me a place to park anyway. Huh? What is that? like protection money so I don’t get ticketed? The hell with it.
Who are the geniuses that dream of these schemes to complicate our lives and harrass us further?
Aren’t they considering reduced fee or no fee for car-pooling?