Here's a Pennsylvania vehicle with a 2001 MTA Transit permit for a Manhattanville location that we see in parked an 8th Avenue at 51 Steet loading zone.

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En route to and from work today I observed three different locations in Manhattan well-served by public transportation to which MTA bus dispatchers drive their personal vehicles and park illegally. I observed the second one on West 23rd Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues as he sweet-talked a traffic agent from writing him a ticket. After she walked away, I mentioned to her it's interesting how these guys work for the bus company but can't bother to take the bus or subway. She giggled. But it really isn't funny that these guys use nothing more than a reflective orange vest or a homemade placard in their front windows and get away with it. Shown here is a dispatcher's car frequently seen at Astor Place, approximately 20 footsteps from the 6 train and 15 paces from several bus lines. Can't the MTA's bus dispatchers utilize the MTA's buses and subways to get to work like the rest of us?

MTA parks in the bike lane to get takeout from McDonald's, and is surprised upon his return to see the guy on the bike snap his photo. (Note the guy on the bike who had to steer into traffic around this parked MTA vehicle.) The "BIKE LANE • BIKES ONLY" sign and marked bike lane were of course clearly visible to the offending driver, who summarily ignored it. As plenty of parking spaces were available free of charge on this Sunday morning, such actions make the folks at MTA look like a pack of sloths.

Car with MTA sticker parked on sidewalk on Park Ave. just north of 125th Street, next to/underneath 125th Street Metro North station.

There might have been bus dispatching going on, or there might have been coffee purchasing going on. Who knows? This person illegally parked their private car at a hydrant. That we do know.

This one is remarkable -- got a transit vest, park on the sidewalk.

These are impressive-looking blue permits, nicely laminated with a Staples-quality gold embossed seal of the NYCTA. They are especially great to use when your spouse wants to go shopping in SoHo, as seen here today opposite the A/X Armani Exchange on Prince Street. This block is a favorite for shoppers, particularly for SUVs with ambulette permits from various Hasidic charitable organizations in Brooklyn. I recently accosted one shopper displaying a placard obviously created on her home computer, stating: "That is the fakest permit I ever saw!" Her reply? "Works every time!"