New York, NY – Records Show De Blasio’s Promise To Cut Unnecessary Tickets To New Yorkers Falling Short

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    FILE - NYC Mayor Bill deBlasio (Photo Credit: William Alatriste)New York, NY – Records show that New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s promise to dramatically cut the number of unnecessary tickets given out to New Yorkers is falling a bit short, and that the total number of summonses issued over the first five months of 2014 is up from 2013.

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    NYPOST.com (http://bit.ly/1mvuQgt) reports that 237,641 tickets were written during the first five months of de Blasio’s tenure by the seven agencies operating under the city’s Environmental Control Board (ECB), including the Sanitation Dept., as opposed to 197,278 during the same period in 2013.

    While campaigning last year, de Blasio often ripped former mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration for over-ticketing New Yorkers, and pledged reform upon taking office.

    “The thing that we’re focused on immediately is ending the arbitrary ticket blitzes that were revenue-based,” de Blasio said in February.

    Records, however, reveal that the opposite is true, with $67M in revenue collected by the ECB from January to June of 2014 as opposed to $66M during the same period last year.

    City officials pointed to an unusually long winter and more snow as a major reason for the increase, but records show that the Sanitation Dept.’s ticket numbers for April and May of 2014 still exceed the number of tickets written for the same months in 2011 and 2012.


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    Butterfly
    Butterfly
    9 years ago

    Some people have left NY and others have sold their cars.

    9 years ago

    One part of this makes sense. The Mayor is referring to the ticket blitzes that were unrelated to enforcement of anything, just to take away the income of NYC residents to feed the budget. We New Yorkers are understandably enraged that our hard earned money is being taken away by governmental greed. Think of it – some of these regulations have nothing to do with cleaning streets or safety. They just make some behavior into a crime for which a monetary fine is levied. Sounds like a good way to make money. The trouble is that this is also immoral as heck. At least the Mayor’s statement was reference to the abolishing of this practice.

    Now, where’s the action to fulfill the promise? Maybe there should be some input from community boards that should be given priority in considering the continuing or modifying of these regulations.

    9 years ago

    It’s just so hard to believe that the Mayor would be more concerned with gaining revenue for the city than for the average citizen’s wallet. Even harder to believe is that a politician lied while campaigning for office.