Earlier this year, many members of the NYPD decided to enact a silent protest against Mayor de Blasio and so they stopped writing tickets. This work stoppage only lasted a couple of weeks, during which time the city saw a more than 90% drop in tickets written for violations such as traffic and parking. However, because the city saw a decrease in the money it brings in through those very same tickets, Commissioner Bill Bratton threatened cops with a termination of their vacation time and after that went back to ticketing drivers, litterers and others.
This city makes over half a billion dollars a year in parking tickets alone, rendering them one of the most important revenue makers in New York. The heavy snow we have received in the beginning of the year made it impossible for street sweepers to do their jobs, meaning there’d been an ongoing cancellation of alternate-side parking. The problem with the return of alternate-side parking are that many streets were not ready due to the huge piles of snow and ice.
So the question is why put the alternate-side rules back? Why even have them at all? If you didn’t know by now, it’s all about the money.
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