New York, NY – City Hall's crackdown on government employee parking placards has arrived. Acknowledging the dissonance between his congestion mitigation efforts and City employees' flagrant parking abuse, Mayor Bloomberg today announced a reduction in the number of city government parking permits and new, more centralized procedures for the issuance of placards.
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1) City agency will reduce its number of parking placards by at least 20 percent.
2) The issuance of parking placards will be centralized and only the Police Department and the Department of Transportation will have the authority to issue them.
3) The NYPD will create a new enforcement unit to ensure compliance and agencies will develop enforcement procedures to prevent the abuse of placards.
"Parking placards are a necessary tool for conducting City business, but we have no tolerance for their abuse, which contributes to congestion," said Mayor Bloomberg. "We will give out placards only to those who need to use them to further the public interest."
"In addition to the reduction in official placards, vehicles displaying look-alike or counterfeit placards will be issued summonses and their owners will be subject to further prosecution," said Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly. [streetsblog]
So what will double boro parkers do now? Oy vey. Will these people have to unlazy themselves and actually look for a parking spot?
Lots of heart attacks to come.
The idiots in charge do not realize that the Mayors office for Fild industry hands these out freely. They hand out scouting permits that allow anyplace/anytime parking. These are not official permits, they are less limited in power and given to many people too young to understand the seriousness of misuse.
Those of us that have never seen the circus of a film shooting have no idea that the city allows anything so it will seem competitive with other locales. The sad truth is the dollar has fallen so much that NYC is the cheapest place to shoot. The Mayors Office for Film dares not let the truth out because they would no longer be needed and woul dneed to find new jobs.