Alternate side parking in pre-pandemic status is coming on July 5, 2022. Bet you didn’t know this. Neither did I until I found this notice on the sanitation website. Oh, I did find one article on the PIX news site. But beyond that, this has been a down-low operation.
The notice on the sanitation website suggests that our streets are not as clean as they were without street sweepers. I can’t speak for other streets, but my neighborhood does not have dirty streets.
Street sweepers did not keep our streets clean, we did. And still do. Don’t you?
Alternate Side Parking Notice
Click on the link to read the Sanitation Department notice.
https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/dsny/site/news/new-asp-rules
Posted on DSNY site 5/9/2022
Alternate Side Parking Update
Beginning July 5, 2022, alternate-side parking regulations for street cleaning will be restored to pre-pandemic frequency as posted on the signage throughout the City. We are excited to be getting more of the tools we need to do our job of keeping the city healthy, safe, and clean.
The Parking Violation Cash Cow
The real reason for bringing back ASP, alternate side parking, is the revenue generated by parking tickets.
Hey, you were right, in 2015 under Mayor DeBlasio New York made 565-million in parking violations. Reducing alternate side cut into this cash cow. Now the city wants it back.
New York City had a record-breaking year for fines and fees in 2015
Source: Motor Biscuit
In 2015, New York City collected $957 million in fines, a 7.5% increase from 2014. According to Intelligencer, the most significant part of those fines came from traffic and parking penalties. Office of the New York City Comptroller says the NYC parking tickets category brought in $565 million, which is more than 59% of the total $957 million in fines. The city brought in a total of $1.9 billion from fines and fees in 2015, including the fines to the additional $974 million in fees. Fines are for violations, while fees are for particular services.
Alternate Side Parking: The Day After
And it is no coincidence that ASP is due to return on July 5th. It is known that people forget to move their cars the day after a three-day holiday. This flaw allows the city to get a windfall of income from tickets.
The time of the street cleaner is over.
The inconvenience of alternate side parking is over.
Normal Sucks
New Yorkers pay the highest parking ticket fines in the country. But that, it seems is not enough.
The mayor wants people to return to the city to make things normal again.
Normal, in this context, means more fines, more stress, and another reason to leave New York. So much for bringing people back to the city.
It’s time for a permanent break from alternate side parking.
It’s time to say to Mayor Adams and City Hall, No To Alternate Side.
You do not want to go back to the bad old days of moving your car up to four times a week, right? Right. So tell the mayor, and while you are at it, tell your council member. You do not want a return to pre-pandemic alternate side parking. Or better yet, no alternate side parking.
If they are going to slide this one past us, then go for the gold. Had they at least asked for the public’s opinion I would have been okay with one day of alternate side parking. Now, no.
No To Congestion Pricing and No To Alternate Side Parking.
So, what’s a New Yorker to do? First, forward this article to everyone you know who drives.
Next, click on the links below and send emails to the mayor and your council member. Subject Line: No To Alternate Side Parking. And let them know that you are fed up with this gouging of drivers. It’s bad enough that big oil is sticking it to us. Now our own city wants a piece of us.
How To Contact Eric Adams
Source NYC.gov
Email Mayor Adams
https://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/mayor-contact.page
More ways to contact the mayor.
https://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/contact-the-mayor.page
Find Your Councilmember
https://council.nyc.gov/districts/
Reality Check. None of this may work. But what do you have to lose except alternate side parking, the stress of moving your car, and parking tickets?
My Open Email to Mayor Adams and Council Member Barron
I would not ask you to do something that I would not do. So click on the button to read my open email to both the mayor and the council member for my district. I hope it inspires you to do the same thing.
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