To eliminate road congestion for public buses, delivery trucks and ambulances, there needs to be MORE barricaded and safe bike lanes. The City needs to take any measure to get cars off the roads. Trucks and bikes are not a good combo since trucks have blind spots. The City simply cannot sustain population growth of the City and the exponential growth in the number of cars on the road.

Until the day bikers pay for parking and all the freaking dollars to the state and city of NY I’d respect their opinions. But as of now they have no jacks nor any rights to be spewing their opinions. They’re bunch of freeloaders trying to make rules for NYC. Until they pay their fair share of the fees we’re paying right now then they can say whatever they want. But as of now they ain’t jacks. It’s like going into a bar trying to order a bottle of wine with no money. What a joke.

Why not get rid of those free parking anywhere plaques issued to city workers?

I’m all for reducing or elminating alternate side parking. Most streets don’t need it and feel it’s just a ploy to hand out tickets to unlucky drivers who forget to move their vehicles.

This article seems to me to be completely misguided. Manhattan does not have a parking problem, it has a car problem. Too many people driving in too little space. I’m all for tolls on the east river bridges. I’m also in favor of congestion charges; a fee for driving into the section of Manhattan below 59th st, for example. Really, when it comes down to it, I’m in favor of banning cars as private transportation from Manhattan completely. The time when the rest of us New Yorkers let the car-driving minority dictate the terms is over.

I don’t buy Quinn’s ideas for a NY minute. She is pandering for votes and has been Bloomie’s lap dog for all these years.

Listen folks! These are the stats, facts, rants even; I should not all this but . . .

Fact: People with cars are in the minority in this city and their cars take up an unfair amount of space.

Fact: Cars kill between 200 to 300 people a year in this city which is about 200 to 300 times more than bicycles.

Fact: Car congestion (not bike congestion) costs $13 billion each year.

Fact: Most cars are huge and take up way too much space. If you do not think they are huge just look at them; even try to pick one up.

Fact: Cars make the city filthy. Go follow underneath the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, take lots of pictures; show them to your friends to laugh hysterically at all those beautiful zoom zoom zoom car commercials in the pristine countryside straight out of George Orwell’s 1984. Oh yeah, lots of companies that make cleaners, air purifiers, etc. would probably go out of business in this city — I am not sure this is a fact because of trucks, no. 6 heating oil, etc — if there was no car-caused filth.

Fact: Cities are made to solve the transportation problem by bringing everything close together. Just go outside the city and see how far apart everything is.

Fact: There are much better, safer, more practical & less costly ways to get around the city than using cars.

By-the way; attend the event at the New York Academy of Science March 2 on transportation resilience and climate change to find out how transportation systems based on cars will respond to ongoing and accelerating inevitable extreme weather events to come; do remember that little blizzard a while back.

Fact: Last year about 850,000 cars were put on the streets of Beijing China. This year there is a lottery limiting the number to 240,000. Take a guess why!

Fact: The high price of food globally has in part been caused by the devastating heat wave in Russia last summer and in part because ethanol is being produced instead of food; and, subsequent accelerating starvation rates. If that massive heat wave had been centered over Chicago the food crisis would be much worse now since the United States produces a lot more food for global consumption and the equivalent amount lost to the heat would have been a lot greater.

“The great thing about science is that it works even if you don’t believe in it.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist, American Museum of Natural History

Are you kidding? I own a car and I live on the Upper East Side. It’s some of the most valuable real estate in the world, and I can park right in front of my building for FREE! You can’t do this in most cities. I keep expecting this perk to go away especially considering the budget crunch, and one day it may, but in the meantime NYC is awesome for parking!

There should be no free parking – and I say that as a resident who parks my car on the street. Most cities require residents to have a permit to park on the street in their neighborhood (only) Why not Manhattan?

This will free up spots while still catering to residents who will pay a reasonable annual fee. There should be only commercial parking in streets with commercial store fronts so that deliveries can be made easily and without blocking traffic.

There is then sufficient space for trucks, bicycles, pedestrians and car owners in the city (like myself!) will pay a market fee for the space we take from others.

Sounds fair to me; I honestly don’t know what the city does not implement. How can anyone argue with it

On Sunday, we parked on 8th Street between 5th and University. We walked a half-block to the munimeter, put the reciept in the car, went to dinner. When we returned, there was a ticket on the car and the time was one minute after the timestamp on the munimeter reciept. The metermaid printed out the ticket while we were at the munimeter, but didn’t put it on the car until we had placed the reciept on the dash and walked away. What a coward! We are not going to pay this.