Downtown Express: City officials learning how to share their cars
Reported by uncivil on Thu, Oct 08 2009
The city is taking aim at the government cars that fill Lower Manhattan's streets.
Under a pilot program starting early next year, 57 city Dept. of Transportation workers will lose their free cars and will have to use a shared pool of 25 cars instead.
Downtown residents who have long complained about the rampant abuse of government vehicles -- which take up legal parking spots in front of businesses, clogs loading zones and often park illegally -- called the D.O.T.'s yearlong pilot a step in the right direction.
[more: http://www.downtownexpress.com/de_337/cityofficials.html]
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Posted on Fri, Oct 09 2009 at 11:26 PM
Sounds like a good development, but yeah, I think it's worth getting some of these city employees on bikes, as well as of course continuing to slash the number of permits and cracking down on their abuses (especially the bogus union placards).
But the City really needs to do a better job educating business owners about parking policy. Some of them really have it backwards!:
"At the Harbour Cafe on Peck Slip, owner Anita Gomes said the scarcity of free or metered parking spaces discourages people from stopping in for a meal. The only parking option is a lot or a garage, which is too expensive, she said."
The problem is not too little free/cheap parking.. it's too much!
Posted on Sat, Oct 10 2009 at 10:22 PM
There we go again about city employees on bikes. Not everyone has a 9 to 5 job like you Lawandorder. Not everyone sits behind a desk like you. You don't have a job where you are wondering if you are going home at the end of your tour. So stop with the crap. When you walk in their shoes then you can talk.
Posted on Mon, Oct 12 2009 at 08:32 PM
When you ride a bike to work and school daily, you can try to justify people blocking bike lanes, oh wait.. you already do.
Posted on Tue, Oct 13 2009 at 01:27 PM
When all cyclists OBEY the VTL like all motorists should do, then we can have a sane and civil discussion about bike lanes and their usefulness.
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