Wow... I cant even guess where the journalist that wrote this article stands.

I cant help but laugh at the strong words against "illegal idling", it sounds like a joke.

will we soon be ticketing children for breathing too much also?

I guarentee if police officers try to enforce this law in the winter, they will get the same response from everyone "Ill take the damn ticket so I don't freeze my butt off"

No, more parents will be taking their children to the doctor or hospital if this continues not to be enforced.  If you're outside in the winter then wear proper clothing.  Don't unneccessarily pollute the air because of your laziness.

tell that to the infant inside the car.

Much more often, then not, is there isn't infant in the car.  Unless you're referring to the car's owner.  Tell me, how do all those infants being pushed around outside survive in their baby carriages?  Perhaps jackets and/or blankets?

The law while well-intentioned is nearly unenforceable for one simple reason - to positively prove Illegal Idling, the TEA would have to stand, watch and time an idling car. 

They're supposed to be walking around.  Add in the possibility of having to confront an angry driver (most of their tickets are usually done with the driver away from their vehicle), and which TEA in their right mind would want that hassle?  

Even if the TEA saw you idling at 12:05pm and circled the block and saw you in the same spot idling 6 minutes later, you could just claim that you had in fact turned off the engine for most of that time and had just re-started 10 seconds ago.  I myself have done this on really cold days - pull into a hydrant waiting for a passenger, turn off engine.  After a while it starts getting damn cold in the car, I re-start engine and blast the heat for a couple of minutes to warm up, shut off engine after a while.  Repeat until passenger returns and I leave.

So nearly unenforceable.

The city should also enforce; jaywalking, blocking the box, littering, no hand held cell phones while driving, picking up after your dog shits all over the sidewalk, curbing your dog, decibel levels in bars and clubs, no pissing in public, no shooting unarmed black men...

There are plenty of vehicle and traffic laws that are not properly enforced - the only way this is going to change is with a new mayor and police commissioner that makes it a priority to enforce the laws not currently being enforced.

Great article. The City should enforce this law. There should be a massive education program and giant signs at all entrances to the City reminding motorists that the idling law is there to protect the quality of the air that all of us breathe, and the fine for a violation is up to $2000.

 Yes and motorists will have plenty of time to read these signs while they sit in traffic-idling...

Thanks for the article, I will now double my idling. Fucking assholes. I'll stop idling when Silverman goes after the Obama's for each taking Air Force One 4 HOURS apart to the same destination. Till then, idle idle idle.

Why are right-wingers so dumb? For one thing, it's basic English that one should not put apostrophes in plurals. But more importantly, how could they "each take Air Force One 4 hours apart to the same destination"? Air Force One refers to the aircraft that the President is on. Are you saying Obama somehow takes a flight somewhere, flies back then flies there with his wife again? The funny thing is that none of the conservative sites harping on that report can identify exactly what kind of "special" aircraft Michelle Obama needed that spatked their outrage. I can tell you definitively that it was neither of the VC-25 (militarized 747) aircraft you're thinking of. They're just repeating each other without thinking and you're just parroting them mindlessly. You really should try getting your news from sources other than Drudge and the like. The topper is that you swear you're going to do something destructive for no good reason other than somebody else pissed you off. What are you, five years old? That's what adults call a temper tantrum.

Idle, idle, idle in a small enclosed garage

move out of the city you goofs.

next new law will be.

before you walk out your front door into the street you have to jump 2 time, spin around and bark like a dog.  Only then are you allowed to use the city sidewalk.  If the ticket man only sees you jump once you need to visit the magistrate to explain yourself.

I jumped twice you say.  No, you only jumped once said the thought police.

god bless you all.

This will be a tough one to sell to the common man who tends to idle.  They need to be educated as to what is actually coming out of the tailpipe.  Once they realize that it is not smoke but actual particles, then maybe they would think differently.  Today's American needs an incentive to change, especially the lazy ones...

Easy sell to the common man who likes to breath.

There is nothing to "sell", the law was already passed three years ago. All they need to do is enforce it. I bet the vast majority don't even know this law exists. Once they get ticketed for it though, you can bet they'll change their behavior real quick.

 as for enforcement, cops themselves are the kind of guys who  idle, so good lick with that :(

Yes cops are used to breaking the laws that are put in place to protect us and make our lives better.

 People in general need to be sold that idling is something that should be on their mind.  I am not speaking of lawmakers I am speaking of the comman man...  who walks while texing, who crosses in front of a car, who walks in the middle of the street, who stands in the middle of the sidewalk, who walks slowly during rush hour... who leaves his car running whne he goes to get a lottery ticket:  that guy...

Ugh, people idle on my block all the time -- for two hour stretches and more.