Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking Placards

DOT’s Jamaica Plan: Unclog Queens Transit Hub With 1.4 Miles of Bus Lanes

By Noah Kazis | May 16, 2011 | 3 Comments

We missed these when they were first released in late March, but DOT has come out with its preliminary recommendations for improving bus service in downtown Jamaica [PDF]. The plan calls for adding roughly a mile and a half of new bus lanes and beefing up an equal amount of existing lanes. It would also […]

NYPD Still Won’t Ticket Their Own

By Ben Fried | May 4, 2011 | 39 Comments

With the release of Transportation Alternatives’ new report on parking placard abuse and the introduction of City Council Member Daniel Garodnick’s bill to add scannable bar codes to official placards, the push is on again to curb the flagrant exploitation of parking privileges. Despite the substantial reduction in official placards by the Bloomberg administration in […]

New Study: The Parking Placard On That Car Is Probably Illegal

By Noah Kazis | Apr 27, 2011 | 24 Comments

What happens when you put a police station, a courthouse, and borough hall in one place? Utter lawlessness. In a new report [PDF], Transportation Alternatives looked at the dashboards of the vehicles parked in the civic centers of each borough. In areas just a few blocks wide, hundreds of vehicles were displaying placards boasting of […]

Henry St. Placard Abuser Fends Off NYPD By Mixing Church and State

By Noah Kazis | Apr 18, 2011 | 17 Comments

At this point, it’s hardly news that the length of the Henry Street bike lane was filled with parked cars yesterday (see here and here). Being a Sunday, it was par for the course, though still infuriating, that churchgoers were taking advantage of an informal agreement with the police to snatch that lane away from […]

Cuomo to Cut 10 Percent of State Parking Placards

By Noah Kazis | Apr 8, 2011 | 3 Comments

In response to some high-profile abuses of state-issued parking placards and a report by the state’s Inspector General, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced yesterday that he will be reforming the way placards are issued and releasing ten percent fewer total placards. The new state placard regime will be only modestly more strict than before, but creates […]

Garodnick Proposes Bar Code Scanners to Curb Parking Placard Abuse

By Ben Fried | Feb 3, 2011 | 21 Comments

City Council Member Dan Garodnick has introduced a bill that could cut down on the abuse of fraudulent parking placards. The bill would require that city-issued placards be equipped with bar codes that traffic enforcement agents can scan to verify. If enacted, it should cut down on one form of placard abuse: the use of […]

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