Parking Ticket Grace Period Vetoed by Bloomberg

One of the sides of the street on my block has no parking rules (for street cleaning) Wednesday from 11AM - 12:30PM.

The cleaners came by at 11:01.

That said, the whole "street cleaning" thing, as it's set up now, is a joke. Another topic for another day...

bloomberg is still a nut sac, hipsters still self-righteously despise cars, road-hoggin' squares still hate cyclists, and the world still turns.

Wait, so double-parking is ILLEGAL??? Wow I wouldn't have guessed that since I NEVER see DP'd cars (not the ones DP'd for street cleaning) get tickets! I just moved to NYC 6 mths ago and I thought it was so crazy (not to mention dangerous) that people are allowed to DP on many major streets. If DP were ticketed, do you know how much $$ this city could make?! I saw a sign that said that people have to be idling if they are DP'd. That's so insane!! People shouldn't be allowed to DP period! So much traffic is caused by DPing. I can't believe this city is so uptight about expired meters when they could be making oodles of $$ off all the DPers.

DP'd, DP. DPing, DPers!

Nice conjugation of the verb. I believe it's from the Latin verb "to double park."

Welcome to New York. It's not technically legal to double park during street cleaning but some police precincts have tacit understandings that they'll allow it. And I don't know where you saw that sign about idling, but believe it or not idling the engine of any motor vehicle for more than three minutes is in fact illegal unless the engine is needed for something like keeping a refrigerated truck cold.

There are already enough arguments over parking tickets - the meter maids would have to start packing heat. Dumb idea to bring this public.

I see we have a long four years ahead.

The problem with grace periods is that, like good deeds, they beget themselves. For a grace period to work, it has to be a secret. Otherwise, it is simply a later deadline, to be blown and then renegotiated. The City Council’s approach to timekeeping brought to mind that of the Mursi people of southwestern Ethiopia, who, Levine writes, “treat the calendar as something to be discussed and argued about . . . mak[ing] up the details as they go along.”

Levine, reached on the telephone, said, “My guess would be that it’s meant to send a message of deference to people. It’s a clever way of saying, ‘I understand that I’m a public servant, that you are the people we’re serving.’ But, realistically, I don’t quite get it.”

Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2009/12/07/091207ta_talk_collins#ixzz0ZCdpsWPq

Thank god this motorists' entitlement nonsense has been put aside...for now.

The meter runs out when it runs out.

its more about the meter starting. where you park and have to walk half a block to get the munimeter pay station, then walk back to your car to put in the ticket.

in those cases, it makes sense not to give the ticket, but do we really need a law?

Council Speaker Christine Quinn ducked today when asked for her opinion on the conflicting recollections of Councilman Simcha Felder and Mayor Bloomberg about how two influential Jewish nonprofits received a combined $1.5 million in mayoral discretionary funds between 2002 and 2006.

Maybe there is a grace period for these 2 in jail.

what's the full breakdown of discretionary funds throughout bloomberg's tenure?

Mayor Bloomberg showered cash on key City Council members with the power to kill a term-limits extension bill in the last year.

Members of the council's Government Operations Committee have received millions from Hizzoner's slush fund, a once-secret pot of taxpayer money the mayor doles out to favored lawmakers for their pet causes.

All the members are Democrats who will decide whether the change in term limits - which the mayor needs in order to run for a third term - goes before the council for a full vote.

Five members of the committee secured $3.1 million from the $5.3 million stash in Bloomberg's 2008 budget.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/regional/item_IHPhRF1WUhlX2PojTnXfyL#ixzz0ZCfGJgTx

The "grace period" is 5 minutes before your meter is up, deal with it.

Car culture - what can it not screw up?

Tired of the "gotcha"? Where exactly is the gotcha?? I see people double parked, people parked in front of fire hydrants etc every single day in Manhattan. I see traffic agents all of once a week. They don't exactly seem to be lying in wait so they can jump out and give you a ticket the second your meter runs out.

Go to Astoria or Long Island City and you'll see a culture of unticketed double-parking. The white-capped enforcers seem to ignore the double-parkers and concentrate on meter violations and alternate side rules. The mayor should drive through this area if he wants to see traffic disruption that goes unpunished.

Of course, this doesn't change the fact that Bloomberg comes across as a money grubber.

double parking is legal during street cleaning.

I wish it were. double parking is ILLEGAL even during street cleaning but all cops and most agents give you a pass because there is NO where to go. That said every so often I will get a ticket anyway and saying there was street cleaning does not get me off.

i was less than a minute late and gotten a ticket. the traffic cops wait for the hour to change, then drive up and down the streets to give out tickets.

Sorry, but if you read to the end the Times says that in 2007 there were almost 28,000 that were issued exactly on the hour the parking rule went into effect -- as in, exactly at 11AM for NO PARKING 11AM - 1PM. So yes, they were waiting to jump out and give tickets.

From a practical point of view, I just don't see what the mayor gains by vetoing this. The Council will easily override it, he'll take a political hit and lose some clout, and he'll seem cold-hearted and uncaring. He should have just signed the thing and been done with it.

Bottom line: use public transportation.

And raise parking fees.

you're smug, congratulations