New York Times: The Plums and Paybacks of Parking Permits
Reported by uncivil on Wed, Apr 15 2009
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s war on the parking placard has led the city to trim the number to 66,000 of them from 144,000 [pdf].
Most of them go to city employees.
Still, a bushel of them go out each year as a courtesy to state officials and other V.I.P.’s.
What kind of reward calculus does Mayor Bloomberg use?
[more at: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/the-plums-and-paybacks-of-parking-permits/]
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Posted on Wed, Apr 15 2009 at 02:29 PM
Whether bloomberg cuts 66,000 plaques or 70,000 plaques there will always be parking plaques you need to get used to that they will never disappear they may reduce in great numbers but they will always be used everywhere
Posted on Wed, Apr 15 2009 at 07:24 PM
Of course there will always been parking placards, but hopefully they will be far fewer in number (both legal and fake/illegal), and abused far less often than they are now. A 54% cut is a good start.
Posted on Fri, Apr 17 2009 at 08:37 AM
If they take all the placards away from our hard working and deserving NYPD,NYFD and other well deserving agencies they'll go back to the old fashion way.
Posted on Wed, Apr 22 2009 at 08:50 AM
Yep, crime and abuse of authority is as old fashioned as one can get ... been the scourge of humanity at least as long as our written records.
Great work - NYPD.
One should note, that when an off duty police officer is illegally parking, he/she is not risking their own life, but rather the lives of those who must navigate past the residual safety hazards.
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