Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking Permits

Jessica is Lappin’ up the Congestion Pricing Anxiety

By Aaron Naparstek | May 23, 2007 | 12 Comments

At a City Council transportation hearing yesterday Manhattan City Council Member Jessica Lappin expressed anxiety about the effects of congestion pricing on her Upper East Side district. The ill-informed Lappin, who clearly has not read Donald Shoup’s 750-page masterwork, The High Cost of Free Parking, asked DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan if the city would be […]

Residential Parking Permits Spotted in PlaNYC Documents

By Jason Varone | May 3, 2007 | 5 Comments

Today’s Crain’s Insider reports: Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s PlaNYC 2030 documents reveal the Bloomberg administration has dropped its opposition to residential permit parking, which allows only neighborhood residents to park during business hours. Plan documents say it could be introduced in areas that complain of commuters parking there to avoid the proposed $8 Manhattan congestion fee. […]

New York City’s Opinion-Makers Turn Attention to Traffic

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 13, 2006 | 13 Comments

Today’s Times Select, a subscriber-only web site, has published a lengthy manifesto on New York City traffic and transportation by Carolyn Curiel. It urges Mayor Bloomberg to listen to the ideas being generated by the Citywide Coalition for Traffic Relief, and suggests that his legacy depends on it. Increasingly, one gets the sense that the […]