Brooklyn Lawmaker Wants To Sync Meter, Alternate-Side Parking Rules
A Brooklyn lawmaker wants to clear up any confusion being
caused by parking rules across the city.
Councilman Vincent Gentile is proposing a bill requiring
parking meter rules be suspended citywide on all legal and religious holidays
when alternate-side parking regulations are scrapped.
Gentile said many drivers often think they don’t have to
feed the meter on days when alternate-side parking is suspended and are then
hit with hefty fines.
Gentile said every time alternate-side parking is
suspended and meters are not, ticket agents are out in droves to give drivers
what he calls the “gotcha” ticket.
For example, Gentile said the city unleashed a ticket
massacre in his neighborhood on Presidents Day.
“There were three, four ticket agents within a couple
blocks of each other just scouring the meters up and down hoping to score big
and I imagine they scored very big,” Gentile said.
The goal of the bill is to get the city to sync all
parking rules, but Mayor Michael Bloomberg has indicated that he would oppose
any such effort.
“I think it’s really something that the mayoral
candidates will have to address as we go forward and we ride out the rest of
this administration,” Gentile said.
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