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Some New Yorkers love the city's spike in parking summonses: the traffic enforcement agents who get paid to write the tickets. A New York Times review of city records found that more than 700 agents increased their wages by 20 percent with overtime in the 2008 fiscal year. Others raised their pay by over 50 percent, and one workaholic even doubled his income. In all, the city coughed up $13 million in overtime pay to traffic agents, on top off $68 million in regular pay. In return, traffic agents generated $578.6 million in revenues for the city in FY08, up from $366.6 million in 2002. One interesting fact in the article; according to NYPD spokesman Paul Browne, construction sites that disrupt street traffic reimburse the city for the cost of traffic agent overtime. But some critics, like Carol Kellerman of the Citizens Budget Commission, think the city should limit overtime because it obscures "what work force is needed to do the job and what it is being paid." On the other hand, union president James Huntley explains that traffic agents have an insatiable hunger for OT, and "if you take it from them, they might cry."
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It's the same media that NEVER mentioned Muslims' hatred of Israel as a possible motive for 9/11.
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overtime is an american union worker's right.
hey, it's better than being a lazy frenchie demanding not better pay or more OT but that 14th week of vacation, right?
I once saw a traffic cop giving tickets where I used to live in brooklyn. they look pretty much as you would think... dumpy, overweight, and lumbering from car to car.
(bitter cause I racked up about $300 dollars worth of fines)
pieces of shit, all of them. shit shit shit shit (i just got a ticket) shit shit shit shitty shit.
plenty of tickets to give out. if they want the overtime let them have it. i had to wake up at 8 am this morning because some jack ass left his car on the street cleaning side and it prevented the garbage truck from getting down the street so i had to hear it and everyone behind him honk for 20 minutes until someone who double parked on the OTHER side got their fat ass out out move their car. and yet, no ticket on the guy who parked on the street cleaning side, probably no ticket for the double parker and no fine for all the honkers even though I live in a 'NO HONKING' area. NYC drivers can eat it.
I hear your pain. What happened to the Ed Koch recording that was used when people didn't move their vehicles for street cleaning.
I guess it would be too much to ask of the city to have one of these half humans ride along with a street sweeper and ticket those both parked and idling in the zone where the street sweeping is to occur.
Apparently it would be too much to ask. In DC they had to have a company invent a street sweeper with an attached camera that will send automated tickets to vehicles blocking the road.
A few weeks back this same mentality hit the Pier 40 parking lot. Same bright orange tickets, except they were warnings. If that continues those tribal fools running that operation can kiss their sorry asses goodby because the people that use that facility will take them to court for not maintaining that facility properly.
This is good for two reasons. First it makes drivers obey the parking laws and two it will help stimulate the economy. The agents will make more money and then will be able to spend more. Everybody wins.
WRONG! All the money earned goes back to their native countries to feed their villages and pay for more of them to come here.
even though traffic agents are part of the NYPD now, they're still not. how about the nypd ticket all the cars on bus lanes during rush hour? enough tickets to go around if you want to look for them and these agents look for them.
Sanitation can give tickets, too. c'mon everyone get in the game. (and FDNY) I see a sanitation truck give tickets to all the cars blocking street cleaning, doesn't happen often as most residents know the street cleaning rules on their block.
Even with OT they won't be able to ticket all the morons out there. If I were a traffic cop I would be relentless, throwing tickets left and right.
this morning on the bus there were 2 of them looking out the window in search of parking violations. As soon as they spotted a few they hopped off the bus.
All citizens should be traffic agent-deputized.
Neighbors would have traffic ticketing battles, generating millions and millions in revenue. And people would stop parking like complete assholes! Well maybe they wouldn't...
I slept through my alarm on Friday and was in position to fall victim to a ticket for street cleaning, but I think thanks to the torrential rains, I got away with it! w00t!!!!
Why not blitz the drug dealers murdering old people in Coney Island?
No way. They are keeping the local economy afloat and if they are gone then who would the ammo sellers have as clients?
i don't mind if i made a mistake and gotten a legal ticket, but in the past 6 years i gotten 4 bogus tickets. i didn't have time to fight.
those 4 were given to me while i was dropping someone off. they said i was parked. i could of ran over these jackasses to make a point. instead they just block me from leaving.
They need the same effort to ticket people who idle their cars beyond the three, should be less, minute limit. This would reduce pollution, conserve energy, and general income for the city.
I was in Morris Park this week, and talked to many of the business owners there. They complained how parking problems are taking away business. One even got a $100 ticket for "sidewalk obstruction."
Here's the link: http://blogs.journalism.cuny.edu/interactive2010/2009/09/18/fees-frustrate-bronx-business-owners/