Street cleanliness hit 94 out of 100 with shame stickers, it fell to 73 without them, the city just brought them back
New York City Council has voted to reinstate fluorescent 'shame stickers' for cars blocking alternate-side parking, aiming to improve street cleanliness after ratings fell from 94 to 73 since the 2011 ban.
Street cleanliness hit 94 out of 100 with shame stickers, it fell to 73 without them, the city just brought them back
New York City Council has voted to reinstate fluorescent 'shame stickers' for cars blocking alternate-side parking, aiming to improve street cleanliness after ratings fell from 94 to 73 since the 2011 ban.
The New York City Council voted 41-10 on Tuesday to bring back fluorescent “shame stickers” for cars that block alternate-side street cleaning, reversing a ban the Council itself put in place in 2011, according to the New York Post and a DSNY press release. The bill still requires the mayor’s signature before it takes effect.
Under Intro 92, Department of Sanitation workers will again be permitted to place an 8.5-by-11-inch neon adhesive on the driver’s-side window of any vehicle found violating alternate-side parking rules. The sticker reads: “This vehicle violates NYC parking regulations. As a result, this street could not be properly cleaned.”
Council Member Gale Brewer, who represents the Upper West Side and sponsored Intro 92, says the enforcement math has long since broken down: a $65 alternate-side ticket is routinely cheaper than a monthly garage pass, which has produced roughly 500,000 violations cited per week and left an estimated 3,000 miles of city streets uncleaned, per the New York Post. Brewer told the Post she now personally coordinates a monthly cleanup on West 83rd Street with sanitation crews and NYPD because the block cannot be cleaned any other way. “People need to move their damn car,” she said at the vote.
Brewer was also one of the council members who voted for the original 2011 ban. That prohibition followed complaints from drivers that the sticker adhesive was too hard to remove…
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