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Parking Politics

What’s the only thing worse than a parking ticket on your windshield?

An anti-parking-permit political flyer, from some aspirant republican councilman whose name was new to me.

I mean, I do enjoy Staten Islanders using my streets as a midway point of their Manhattan car commute, not to mention all the cars with out-of-state plates, but c’mon, is there any other large city in the U.S. without residential parking permits?

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5 Responses to “Parking Politics”

  1. Scott Says:
    November 3rd, 2009 at 12:26 pm

    How ironic that a candidate for City Council fails to follow the city’s own laws when advertising. It’s been illegal for several years now to place unsolicited things on car windshields in NYC. The fine starts at $75 per handbill — ouch.

  2. Paul Johnson Says:
    November 3rd, 2009 at 12:58 pm

    I don’t know the specifics about the NYC proposal, but at least in Portland, the permits are free if you can prove you live on the block you’re getting a permit for.

  3. Lee Watkins Says:
    November 5th, 2009 at 8:03 am

    I live in Baltimore City, near downtown, but we don’t have a parking permit program in my neighborhood. We can get one set up, but you have to circulate a petition and get a majority to sign on. I’m considering doing it, if I ever get the time…. parking is pretty bad, and getting worse now that people are moving back to this city.

  4. mindy Says:
    May 12th, 2010 at 6:46 am

    Thank you, thank you, thank you for getting this message out.

  5. mindy Says:
    May 12th, 2010 at 6:46 am

    wow… thanks for sharing those… really very touching,

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