New York, NY – City Council passed a measure Thursday that could mean one less day a week of having to move your car to facilitate street cleaning. Alternate-side parking regulations are currently used in 54 of the city’s 59 community districts.
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Under the bill, if a community keeps its streets clean for two consecutive years and gets a 90 percent cleanliness grade, the local community board would have the option of reducing its street cleaning to once a week.
Councilman Brad Lander said the bill would relieve a tremendous burden from city residents. He said that for many people the parking regulations mean “organizing an enormous part of your life around moving your car and getting a parking spot.”
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I am surprised I don’t see the usual line ” But mayor Bloomberg say’s its a bad idea and I will veto it”….
It’s all one gigantic form of legalized extortion that I’m surprised our council members haven’t seen through this by now and took it to court. Hold homeowners responsible for the front of their house, don’t destroy the lives of hunreds of thousands of people everyday who have work to do and errands to run and don’t have time to genocide their time with this nonsense. Marine park, Madison, and Mill Basin are all exempt, then midwood has twice a week per block and then bushwick and flatbush ave areas have it twice a week on EACH SIDE. it’s the same roads! It’s such an open discrimination between rich and poor.
I hope no one hits the snooze button on this wake up.
Owning a car in most of NYC is beyond a pain. The Mayor has made priority out of finding ways to punish us motorists. Watch him try to veto this.
I’m curious after 2 years, how many streets will get the break. its the political way of saying “now is my turn for some publicity” (attention). after all the tickets will generate the same revenue! (“whooa that was a good one!”)
I say do away with streer cleaning, the sweepers leave a bigger mess, all they do is take it from my neighbor & bring it to me & so on. We the people will clean as we anyhow do.
People in crowded neighborhoods like BP and Willy should be required to park their cars in driveways or garages and NOT park on any of the main the streets. There simply isn’t enough room for all the cars. The alternate side parking rules are absolutly necessary and must be enforced if the streets are to ever be cleaned. If you cannot afford a garage, maybe you should just take the bus.
The problem is that there are too many disgusting pigs here who throw their garbage on the ground, even if there is a garbage can 50′ away. In Singapore, one caught littering is sentenced to 3-12 hours of community service, in which they must wear distinctive bright yellow jackets with “Corrective Work Order” stamped across the back, they are given a broom, dustpan and plastic gloves and ordered to clean sidewalks, lawns, carparks and public areas.
even to those naive enough to think alternate side has anything to do with street cleaning and the cleaning being effective, what’s your explanation for the hour and a half that they force us to sit there when the thing usually goes down the street within the first 20 minutes if at all! so it’s clean, now I should sit there for an hour for nothing?