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Residential parking permits in NYC? What do you think? It is being considered citywide.
Examples I know of are Miami and Washington D.C.
I feel this may be counter-intuative for what our city is trying to achieve. It may make ownership of an automobile more desireable considering you now have a place to park. At the same time, price it high enough or limit and it may not.
I think the city should better focus on other methods of decreasing the desirability of ownership such as: reducing the city-wide speed limit, elliminate residential parking minimums, congestion pricing, raising the cost of metered parking.
As someone who lives in a NYC neighborhood that gets invaded every day by Westchester residents who park their cars and hop on subways and express busses downtown,I kind of like the idea of limiting the parking on residential streets to residents of the area.
My building/block is strategically positioned 1 block from a parkway exit and 1.5 blocks from a subway stop that has diamond train rush hour service and a midtown express bus stop. Not a good combination
It is also known as relatively low crime area so word has been out for decades that the there is nice safe,free all day parking for commuters.
I am sure there are lots of other neighborhoods that also become free parking lots for Westchester and Long Island commuters.
It's also rather ironic that there is a sizable number of residents of my neighborhood who have cars in order to commute TO jobs in Westchester! When they leave for work in the morning they free up the spaces that are then filled by the Westchesterites commuting to Manhattan.
As someone who lives in a NYC neighborhood that gets invaded every day by Westchester residents who park their cars and hop on subways and express busses downtown,I kind of like the idea of limiting the parking on residential streets to residents of the area.
My building/block is strategically positioned 1 block from a parkway exit and 1.5 blocks from a subway stop that has diamond train rush hour service and a midtown express bus stop. Not a good combination
It is also known as relatively low crime area so word has been out for decades that the there is nice safe,free all day parking for commuters.
I am sure there are lots of other neighborhoods that also become free parking lots for Westchester and Long Island commuters.
It's also rather ironic that there is a sizable number of residents of my neighborhood who have cars in order to commute TO jobs in Westchester! When they leave for work in the morning they free up the spaces that are then filled by the Westchesterites commuting to Manhattan.
I used to live next to the subway, and had similar issues so I completely agree with your whole post. What made it worse was that it wasn't really Westchester and LI commuters, but mostly just lazy people who lived in Throgs Neck and didn't feel like getting up 15 minutes early to wait for the bus. With two buses (Bx40 and 42) that go directly to the subway, there was just no excuse. I would have loved it if we had a residential pass back then, but now I don't live somewhere it's a concern. Though I do support it.
I think the city should better focus on other methods of decreasing the desirability of ownership such as: reducing the city-wide speed limit, elliminate residential parking minimums, congestion pricing, raising the cost of metered parking.
you mean taking away people's freedom?
Why the hypocrisy?
Why not simply outlaw cars altogether?
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While I like the idea because I think it will force more residents to register and insure their cars here, I do admit it has drawbacks. When I lived in LA, a friend lived in a neighborhood w/ residential permits and when I would visit it would be impossible to find a place to park. Of course in NYC we have viable transportation alternatives in the neighborhoods where the idea of permits is popular.
I am all for the residential permit, except that it should be a permit for any NYC resident to park in any NYC neighborhood. The invasion by NJ/LI/Westchester residents every day taking parking spaces needs to stop.
Has there been any buzz on exactly how much the city plans to charge for these permits?
What's the cost of parking (in a lot) per month, like $450 in Manhattan?
Depending on how much the parking permits will cost and how long they're good for, it sounds like a nice deal to me!
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