Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Move it or get booted

 New York City’s alternate side parking regulations will return to pre-pandemic norms starting July 5, officials announced Monday.

NY Daily News

New York City’s alternate-side parking rules are coming back in full force on July 5, meaning most motorists will once again have to move their cars twice a week for street sweeping.

The announcement from Mayor Adams is a reversal of changes ordered by former Mayor Bill de Blasio in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. That policy — put in place March 17, 2020 — required drivers on most residential streets to move their cars just one day a week instead of twice.

De Blasio’s order was intended to help people stay inside to combat the virus, but has remained in place for more than two years. That’s given car owners an extended break while also allowing the city’s streets to become dirtier.

 It went on for far too long and it largely sidelined the best clean streets tool in our arsenal: the mechanical broom,” city Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch said during a news conference on her first day as head of the department. “The dirty little secret here is that when ASP went to one day a week instead of two in practice it was like having no cleaning on many blocks in the city.”

Adams touted the return to pre-pandemic alternate side rules as part of an effort to “clean up the streets.”

Some streets in the city had alternate-side parking three or more days a week before the pandemic. Officials said those would be restored — and promised $65 tickets to drivers who break the rules.

Sean Bellamy, a car owner who lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn said more enforcement was a welcome return to normal.

“Most people don’t move for the sweepers now,” said Bellamy, 55, a contractor. “The streets are way dirtier now than they used to be. I move my car, but other people don’t.”

 

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

We don't need no stinking clean streets...

Anonymous said...

I'm going back to Constantinople !

Anonymous said...

I dont believe that sweepers even come down half the streets anymore anyway. I used to have to move my car whenever I stayed with my friend on the LES and I never once seen a sweeper go down that block. I can understand maybe bringing a sweeper once every 2 weeks or so on weekends only but 1 or 2 days a week is just ridiculous and they make it at hours where most people aren't even home. Its just another way to give out tickets. Another money grab thats all it is.

Anonymous said...

I'm more worried about the criminals running rampant on the streets than a few bits and pieces of litter lying in the gutter.

Anonymous said...

They don’t care about clean streets or your health. They like making you jump. F Adams and the Nazi progressives. F New York!!! Let it burn!! F

Anonymous said...

They should make it 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Prove me wrong ...

Anonymous said...

It's Putin's fault !

Anonymous said...

Make room for the secret migrant flights as the buses from the airport will need a place to park on your block.

Anonymous said...

How about making motorists sweep up under their own piles of metal? Save the taxpayers lots of money.

Anonymous said...

ron s said...
I wouldn't mind moving my Prius three times a week if it helps keeping the city clean.

Anonymous said...

The tickets are only $65? That's a giveaway. These freeloaders aren't paying a penny for their free car storage. $260 for first offense and double again for every repeat.

"Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do." – Henry Ford (Or was it the Quotation Drone?)


Disgruntled Citizen said...

But the cars will get in the way of the dining sheds and bike lanes

Anonymous said...

Workfare should be used more to clean the streets !

Anonymous said...

Sweeping the streets is another example of wasting taxpayer's money.

The Rats and filthy homeless drug addicts ALWAYS find their way back to trash the streets.

Anonymous said...

Do they make the outdoor dining sheds move for street sweepers? Do they make the homeless tents move for street sweepers?

Anonymous said...

TrumpTurds of the universe unite against this tyranny.

Anonymous said...

@The tickets are only $65? That's a giveaway. These freeloaders aren't paying a penny for their free car storage. $260 for first offense and double again for every repeat.

TA commie forgot to take his medication again.
He should be locked up for life and be medicated forever.