A Brooklyn City Councilman is going after the hated neon shame stickers slapped on cars parked on the wrong side of the street.
“It’s a pretty punitive form of punishment. I mean, what’s next? We’re going to start slashing people’s tires when they don’t park on the correct side?” said Councilman David Greenfield, who represents parking-starved Borough Park and Midwood.
Greenfield plans to introduce legislation that would abolish the hard-to-remove green stickers that sanitation agents paste on errant cars that violate alternate side parking rules.
“First of all, it’s a safety hazard,” Greenfield said. “How the heck are you supposed to drive and look out your window when you got this big thing stuck there? Second, it’s punitive. And, third we have very fundamental principle of justice in this country that you’re innocent until you’re proven guilty and these people are not prove guilty.”
The city started using the stickers in the mid 1980s to motivate New Yorkers to move for street sweepers
“Stickers have been a very effective means of conveying to motorists the importance of moving their cars so that streets can be swept,” said sanitation department spokesman Vito Turso.
But Greenfield says the $45 to $65 fines attached to alternate side tickets are deterrent enough.
(Source: NY Daily News)
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All it does is generates garbage since people peel off the sticker and throw it on the ground.
How about we slap every sanitation vehicle with a big sticker that says “This vehicle and its operators violate fraud laws and did not remove snow as required by NYC law”?
Mr. Greenfield’s proposal will not increase the supply of parking in parking-starved Borough Park and Midwood. It may even cause further parking-starvation by lowering the true cost of parking in those neighborhoods (true cost being the sum of parking meters, fines, and the time/labor of complying with existing parking regulations.
A conservative solution to increase the supply of open parking spaces would be to install Muni-meters and charge about $10 per hour for parking. That would clear the streets in a jiffy. (Obviously, I do not live in Borough Park or Midwood.)
Greenfield. We put you in there to work on Jewish issues not to rebuild America from the bottom up.
It’s an act of vandalism, plain and simple. Totally uncalled for.
The Jewish Obama aka Community Agitator is at it again.