Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking

Fort Greene Gets Action from Spitzer on Placards

By Sarah Goodyear | Apr 19, 2007 | No Comments

The Fort Greene Association has scored another victory in the fight against abuse of placarded parking, this time with some help from very high places. According to Fredrik Anderson, the FGA’s vice chair and head of its transportation committee, neighborhood merchants and residents had been frustrated that state employees who work at 55 Hanson Place […]

SoHo Car Owners Mobilizing to Save Parking, Fight Bike Lanes

By Aaron Naparstek | Apr 18, 2007 | 19 Comments

The SoHo Alliance is at it again. The neighborhood organization that specializes in persecuting street vendors and artists rather than helping to figure out ways to carve out a bit of street space for them and all of the people over-spilling SoHo’s sidewalks, is now mobilizing against the City’s plan to install new bike lanes […]

Queens Residents Oppose Loss of Parking for Bus Rapid Transit

By Jason Varone | Apr 17, 2007 | 13 Comments

Trend Watch: New York City Community Boards and civic groups opposing progressive transportation projects on the grounds that they interfere with car owners’ on-street parking and double-parking privileges. Last week, while DOT was catching flack in Brooklyn for its plan to stripe bike lanes on Brooklyn’s 9th Street, Community Board 13 in Queens was putting […]

The Parking Dysfunction Meter: Fines Are Five Times Revenue

By John Kaehny | Apr 16, 2007 | 16 Comments

More enduring than Big Foot, the Loch Ness Monster and the resurrection of Elvis is the deeply held belief that there is such a thing as "free" parking for the average motorist in New York City. "Free" means you do not have to pay. But someone is paying the $579,455,152 in parking fines the city […]

City’s Parking Expansion Sustains Nothing but Motoring

By Sarah Goodyear | Apr 12, 2007 | 7 Comments

From the Tri-State Transportation Campaign‘s latest newsletter, three examples of how City Hall contradicts its stated Long-Term Planning and Sustainability goals with policies that foster more automobile dependence: The huge parking expansion associated with new Yankee Stadium construction has failed to attract any bids from private operators. The city has apparently scaled the seemingly uneconomic […]

CB6 Asks DOT to Find a Final Solution to the “Bicycle Problem”

By Aaron Naparstek | Apr 12, 2007 | 39 Comments

Community Board 6 was grumpy about the idea of bike lanes on 9th Street. At last night’s Community Board 6 meeting in Brooklyn DOT Deputy Commissioner Michael Primeggia’s "One Way? No Way!" proposal was shot down decisively, the Grand Army Plaza bike and ped improvements passed unanimously, and the 9th Street pedestrian safety, traffic-calming and […]

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