Open Thread Wednesday

Sounds like a problem that could be surmounted with sensible rule-making.

For example, have different tiers of permits that can be purchased and displayed in any combination one likes: city-wide, which entitle you to a certain number of hours at a time, borough- or zone-wide, which entitle you to a certain number of days at a time, and neighborhood-wide, which are more or less year-round permits. If you work in the city, purchase the permit for the city and the borough; if you only use your car to go out of town on the weekends, just get the neighborhood permit.

Not perfect, but just an idea off the cuff.

I suspect the reason they don’t do this is because it would result in fewer people getting parking tickets, and therefore less revenue for the city.

Yeah, 2 yeas at least.

It doesn’t cost the city anything to let someone park a car on the street. But the city makes hundreds of millions a year in parking tickets, so there’s your parking fee.

The Irony is, it’s not that expensive to insure a car in NYC anymore. I pay less than a grand a year for liability. 20 years ago it was 3 times that..

well it looks like the demolition permits were issued at the beginning of March and they had another couple permits in the works that were approved in April. sounds like they’re probably still working on getting all the necessary approvals.

I’d be fine with registering and insuring bikes, though it seems like massive overkill considering there’s only been a single death caused by a cyclist in the city in the last decade as compared to well over 1,000 deaths by auto in the same time period.

As far as registration costs, the cost of registering a car in NY is tied to the weight of the vehicle. So If it’s $32.50 to register a 2,000 pound car, then a 40 pound bike should cost 2% as much — or 65 cents a year. (Some might argue the registration fee should be based on the volume of space the vehicle takes up, but that’s not how the state does it.)

As far as paying for parking, sure — as long as the cost is also commensurate with the amount of space they take. So if a car pays $2/hour then the bike should pay 20 cents an hour.

I think the sidewalk in front of Starbucks, Honeygrow and the Equinox is consistently more filthy than the sidewalk in front of Packer School from my observation.

So funny. No such entity, at least on Joralemon Streeet, called the Packer School. The name is, as I wrote in my comment, the Packer Collegiate Institute.

“Packer” for short.

Yes, our Brooklyn streets are a mess.

Why should those who don’t cheat subsidize those who do? It’s so obvious. There are six people in my 33 unit building who don’t have New York plates. I can assure you, they put their heads on the pillow at least five nights a week in Brooklyn. As they say on MNF, “Come on man!”

I forgot. I live in a sanctuary city. The thing that gets my goat is I pay 13% on every dollar I make in NYC and state and cant get the government, who all get paychecks and pensions funded by me, to do their job. I pay $2600 a year to an insurance company (never been in a wreck, by the way) and when I call them to inform them people are ripping them off and I can help, they tell me there is nothing they can do. Well that’s not good enough. Residential permit parking would help solve both problems. There are other cards to play… Lots of problems to solve…

I was told that they have been preserved and will be displayed inside the new library.

After watching Vinegar Hill try to get them, it’s clear that residential parking permits will never exist in NYC. Due to the way the law is written, the State has to approve any parking permit program and guess who runs that show, NYC suburb representatives. Lots of people drive into and park in the city everyday and would riot if they couldn’t, so any permit plan is DOA…