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Drivers living on exceptionally clean streets could earn a respite from the burden of alternate-side-of-the-street parking. Residents of Red Hook, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens and Park Slope were granted a stay of parking execution by the Dept. of Sanitation yesterday. Because the area has consistently received scores of 90% or higher for street cleanliness over the last few months, residents will no longer have to move their cars to comply with street cleaning requirements. According to WCBS, the above neighborhoods are the only ones who have qualified for the exemption, but Windsor Terrace and Sunset Park have expressed interest in opting out of the city requirement. Exempted residents will no longer have to move their cars on Tuesdays, Thursdays, or Saturdays.
Alternate side of the street parking began in the 1950s and its purpose was to allow mechanized street-cleaning. The official DOT page on alternate side parking. If you've never had to move your car to comply, this might be informative.
(from sanitation, by Triborough at flickr)
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this shit don't make no sense. they are exceptionally clean streets cause the cars are probably moved on a more frequent basis thus enabling the streetsweepers to do their jobs, cleaning the streets. Now if they stop alternate side parking, then there will be less streetsweeping and the streets will get dirtier.
amen, #1. I live in Bay Ridge, which is pretty clean, and I'd rather keep doing the alt side thing rather than cutting it by 50% for the sake of cutting Dept. of Sanitation costs. A few months of dealing with too many coffee cups and plastic bags cluttering up the drains and the neighborhoods will be asking to go back to the old cleaning plan. If anything, those neighborhoods should be doing what they do in Manhattan and clean twice a week to make car ownership even more difficult and keep the densest and most desirable areas as clean as possible. With the exception of RH (why is there only one bus route there?), they have plenty of transit alternatives and don't really need cars.
I'm not clear on what this means. Do I no longer have to move my car if I'm parked in a "NO PARKING 8AM-11AM THURSDAY" spot in Park Slope? The signs are still on my block. Will Gothamist (or WCBS) pay my parking tickets if I don't move the car and I am ticketed? What will the judge in parking court say when I present a screen shot of Gothamist's article?
#1 - "don't make no sense" means it DOES make sense.
#3 - Call 311, find out. Why would you throw up your hands and blame Gothamist if you get a ticket. Grow up.