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Why do so many people, aside from delivery persons, double park their vehicles on busy streets where buses operate? If a person has "no choice" but to double park, why does the person not at least do it on some side street where no bus operates, and just walk a bit further to wherever s/he needs to go? I look specifically at Nostrand Ave in Bed-Stuy, Crown Heights, Lefferts Gardens, and Flatbush, where double parking is commonplace despite the fact that the street grid is very dense and there are plenty of other streets where buses do not operate. Rogers Ave in these neighborhoods is another street where double parking should never be done except maybe by delivery persons.
Most double parking is not a "no choice", its a "no care". Most don't even bother to look for legal parking. They double (and sometimes triple) park near the store they want to go to and shop. The only way to change the attitude is to do what is done in Manhattan. I've seen tow trucks pull in front of cars that were simply dropping off passengers on the Avenues.
You want see a worse case scenerio: Go to Ave J in Brooklyn on a Friday. Double parking, pump parking, corner parking, bus stop parking is the norm. Watching the buses zigzag between CI Ave and the train station is a real treat.
Nostrand between "M" and "N" is another one. Plaza Auto Mall = every single day offender with the double parking. I wonder why nobody has done anything to stamp that out when it has been happening for years (referring to Plaza Auto Mall, not other people/situations)?
Also why is it that they have the tow trucks in Manhattan and not elsewhere? Who determines where they go to tow errant vehicles?
I wonder why nobody has done anything to stamp that out when it has been happening for years (referring to Plaza Auto Mall, not other people/situations)?
Also why is it that they have the tow trucks in Manhattan and not elsewhere? Who determines where they go to tow errant vehicles?
Years? Decades.
Manhattan makes the city the most money, so Mayor B is going to send the tow trucks where he can get the biggest bang. Once they made metermaids part of NYPD, cops don't want to get out of their cars to deal with parking tickets. So unless vsomeone calls and complains, its treated as a low priority. Each pct has its hotspot, so they are going to send cops in droves to those areas that will make the city money and give that pct a better report card.
Nostrand Avenue is simply not wide enough to implement such a thing.
it is if nobody double parks and people pay attention to the no standing signs. what difference will it even make to you if they are just going to encroach on the bus lane anyway if somebody is double parked in the 2nd lane (from the left), or even if nobody is double parked, as is done now except that now there is no bus lane?
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