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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telling people to not use their cars is pointless.
i don’t agree. i think telling people (or at least encouraging them) to not use cars has many points, actually.
sure there are people who have valid reasons for using cars, but this whole congestion pricing idea along with the permit parking is being created to get people to LIMIT USE OF THEIR CARS!!!!
why don’t you tell bloomberg to stop telling people not to use cars instead of me, if you’re so pro-car. i know you’ll do whatever you please. and by the sound of your comments, you don’t even see why the excess use of cars in our society is a huge problem, apparently.
haha I love not having a car so much. Sheep bahh…
Just rent when I need one.
12:35 Well if you think everyone who has a car uses it to drive a few blocks to the store, I guess you just don’t get it. My point is that that is an easy stereotype, and could even be true in a few cases, but some people have a car for a good reason, and regardless telling people to not use their cars is pointless.
i wish the pro car people would give it a rest.
what was your point, 12:31??
you’d rather pick on the people who actually do use mass transportation and walk than those that drive their car 10 blocks to the store??
Crack = Cars
I think resident only parking sounds great but it would be a nightmare, especially in over-crowded neighborhoods like Brooklyn heights.
There are not enough streets for the residents to park. So not only would you need to buy a sticker, you also would need to rent garage space.
There is also the sadistic aspect of this by which I mean that perfectly nice ladies and gentlemen are gleeful over the prospect of other people getting huge fines. At the Brooklyn Heights Assoiation, which is really just a small clique of snobs with little diversity, the talk is of charging $400 per ticket. The whole thing is absurd, elitist, exclusionary, and anti-democratic.
I vote no to the old dinosaurs imposing yet another tax on our heads.
I wish the anti driving ranters would give it a break. Great, you prefer the subway. Great, you think cars are evil. You know what, shut up allready. Some people have cars for good reasons, some for bad reasons. Posting “take the subway” is not likely to convince anyone to sell their car.
Something that no one is talking about is the possible (and likely) increase in garage rates for those of us who in live on the perimeter. Instead of $300/month we pay now in downtown Brooklyn, we coud be seeing $600/month as it is in Manhattan. All those people driving in who used to pay for a lot/garage in Manhattan will look to do it here. There are a lot of garages (almost every new building has one) but nothing to protect residents from being gouged by the operators if/when this goes into effect.
punko – I am very happy for you that BH has parking garages. PS doesn’t so where does that leave us?