New York, NY – New York City’s “Don’t Honk” signs are coming down, but it’s still against the law to blow a car horn unnecessarily.
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The city Department of Transportation says all the signs will be removed by the end of the year.
According to The New York Times ( HTTP://NYTI.MS/117AVZA ), city officials say the decision is part of an effort to de-clutter the streets of signs that generally go ignored.
Unnecessary honking carries a $350 fine but is rarely enforced.
The DOT says complaints about honking have declined 63 percent since 2008.
But City Councilwoman Gale Brewer said in a letter to the DOT: “I can’t tell you how many requests I get for `no honking’ signs.”
The signs were introduced during Mayor Ed Koch’s administration.
Just curious….how much of our tax dollars will go toward pulling down these signs? I bet it won’t be a cheap endeavor.
great, now boro park will have even more honking
They’ll take down the signs and then when there is no notice, they will start enforcing the law.
Then somebody will say there was no sign!!
Yeah, BP is the calmest driving place. Why the need for signs?
We rarely hear beeping here. 😀
R’ Berel Wein likes to say that in New York honking your horn just means that you are alive.
Its just so now people will not know or they will forget and NOW they will make lots of money.
Since people are on cell phones / texting all the time wile driving we don’t need any signs any more nobody is rushing….