Tuesday, December 27, 2011

NYPD doesn't enforce idling law


From CBS New York:

Engine exhaust from cars, trucks and buses has been linked to cancer, strokes and New York City’s high rate of childhood asthma.

The city has tough laws to prevent drivers who sit with their vehicles running, but, as CBS2′s Don Dahler has seen, some say it’s no more than an idle threat, because it’s rarely enforced.

When school lets out, scenes of drivers, parked and idling as they wait to take kids home, are playing out all over the city.

18 comments:

Anonymous said...

There aren't any cops left to enforce felonies and you're worried abot idling motors? Ask the powers that be why they are so hell bent on cops issueing C summonses for the last 10 years......

Anonymous said...

do you want the school bus drivers in front of public schools to get colds ?

Anonymous said...

You want to enforce this law? Fine, hire about a hundred thousand new cops to go around to write summonses fr this, and other similar quality of life offenses. Then hire a few thousand more judges to handle the overflow of all the outraged drivers who will fight the summonses. Then, hire a few hundred more lawyers to defend the cops at the Civilian Complaint Review Board, and to defend the city from the ACLU and other citizens rights groups. Then go out and pay your taxes, so the city will have the money to pay all these groups when they settle out of court.

Anonymous said...

Come to Flushing Meadows Corona park in August during the US Tennis Open: Limos by the dozens, and buses, engines idling (to keep the AC on) while waiting for the games to end.

Jimmy said...

Just come by on street cleaning morning in winter on my street, and you'll see a street-long row of idling cars. The drivers are keeping warm. I presume this happens all over the city. All that pollution just so the city can perfunctorily clean the street.

Anonymous said...

Anon No. 3:

The ACLU is going to fight a car idling case? Someone is going to take an officer to the CCRB over car idling?

Anonymous said...

do you want the school bus drivers in front of public schools to get colds ?
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how about passing a law that says any new Buses MUST be hybrid-electric where the combustion engine is not engaged when in park?

Anonymous said...

A sanitation department official lived on my block a couple of years ago. He would be picked up at Ten AM every morning but his driver would arrive at 8:30 and sit in his idling white sanitation car waiting. The engine fumes would waft into all the bottom floor apartments. We asked the official to have the driver shut off the engine but to no avail.
Finally one of the neighborhood guys got his hot looking girl friend to talk the drive up while the guy shoved a rubber ball up the exhaust pipe. The engine stoped in about a minute and the car had to be towed. About a week later he did it again. Then he put a broken bottle uneder the rear tire. Then a golf ball went through the back windshield.
The official finally got the message. The idling stopped.

Anonymous said...

Anon No. 3:

The ACLU is going to fight a car idling case? Someone is going to take an officer to the CCRB over car idling?
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New Yorkers DEFINITELY will take officers to CCRB for getting summonses for such things. They already make civilian complaints against cops when they receive other summonses, wait until they receive one for letting their car idle. New Yorkers feel that enforcement is something that should be done to the other guy. When the law is enforced against them, they cry that their rights have been violated. And if anyone here doesn't think the ACLU will cry "unconstitutional", then you know where the bridge for sale is.

Anonymous said...

"how about passing a law that says any new Buses MUST be hybrid-electric where the combustion engine is not engaged when in park?"

Great idea.

It might help kill they myth that these cars (buses) are practical.

You'll notice that the greeners don't want a test like this. They prefer to try to change the whole country over.

Anonymous said...

Anon No. 9:

I know exactly where that bridge is - I've been trying to sell it to someone here. Given the environmental issues, I don't think that the ACLU would want to get involved with that issue.

Anonymous said...

Enforcement is not as easy as it seems. Engine idling laws apply to idling over three minutes. So an officer would have to observe someone idling their car for three consecutive minutes to actually write a summons.
If they decided to start doing this, they might nab a few people at first, but before long everyone would know to just shut off the engine if they see a cop hanging around nearby.

Anonymous said...

But if the cops were standing around writing tickets the same people would complain police harassment and that cops have nothing better to do and that little johnny is going to get hypothermia if the heat in the car is turned off.

I would love for the police to bang out tickets there at one minute 1 second and I would laugh at all those idiots because they complained about it aand now they got it. Be careful what you wish for because you just may get it.

Anonymous said...

Does Bloomies limo get tagged when it is kept running in the summer to keep the AC going?

Or does the ruling class prefer us to eat cake.

Anonymous said...

I know exactly where that bridge is - I've been trying to sell it to someone here. Given the environmental issues, I don't think that the ACLU would want to get involved with that issue.
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They certainly would, if it meant being able to take a shot at Kelly and his NYPD.

Anonymous said...

This would be an Environmental Control Board summons that would be issued to the offender.There are other agencies/police/peace officers that have the power to issue these................

Anonymous said...

Rather have automobiles idling to pick up these damn kids than have them wandering on their own, making up coked-up, reckless activities and being functional retards.

Anonymous said...

Anon No. 15:

They certainly wouldn't, because they'd have every environmental group in the city taking a shot at them.