Double-Parking on Flatbush

meredithb · February 2008

Sorry, but IMO this is out of control. Last week I saw a car double-parked in front of Wing Wagon for 20 minutes midday. No cops, nothing. It seemed as though the guy knew he wouldn't get a ticket.

Yesterday I parked near Crunch. When I came back and got into my car a large truck pulled up and blocked me in. I was honking my horn but the driver didn't seem to care as if what he was doing was more important than anyone else.

I'm sorry, but I wish the NYPD would start ticketing double-parked trucks. Unfortunatley, NYC seems to want its cake and eat it too. Meaning, it wants there to be parking meters, most likely so that NYC can give parking tickets, yet it provides no spaces for trucks to make their deliveries so NYC willfully ignores double-parked trucks.

I'd like to see half the metered parking spaces in business districts become loading zones during work hours although I know it's doubtful this will happen.

Thus, we once again get unequal enforcement of the law and traffic nightmares at the expense of civility.

Typical.

jamzer · February 2008

I never understood this either. The worst offenders seem to be cars in front of Juniors. Do they pay off the cops so that cars can double park there for hours? It is so frustrating and it is only going to get worse you know when.....

drano · February 2008

I don't know why it's tolerated either. It's terrible on Coney Island Avenue, but despite the fact that double parkers make a busy two lane street into a one lane nightmare I have never, ever seen anybody being ticketed. Car services use the inner lane as their parking lot? No problem! Car washes use the lane to dry cars? Hey, why not! Garages have cars practically up on blocksin that lane? Go right ahead!

Seriously, if one patrol car went up and down CIA 24 hours a day writing tickets they could bring in mid-seven figures a year in revenue.

drano · February 2008

Jamzer wrote: I never understood this either. The worst offenders seem to be cars in front of Juniors. Do they pay off the cops so that cars can double park there for hours? It is so frustrating and it is only going to get worse you know when.....

I hate to say it, but that thought has crossed my mind with regard to the Coney Island Avenue situation. With what cops are starting on salary-wise, the temptation must be significant.

vidro3 · February 2008

Coney Island Ave is ridiculous.

However, for what it's worth, some double parking is actually legal.

From the NYC Traffic Rules, section 8

"except a person may stand a commercial vehicle alongside a
vehicle parked at the curb at such locations and during such hours that stopping,
standing, or parking is not prohibited, while expeditiously making pickups,
deliveries or service calls, provided that there is no unoccupied parking space or
designated loading zone on either side of the street within 100 feet that can be
used for such standing, and provided further that such standing is in compliance
with the provisions of Section 1102 of the State Vehicle and Traffic Law."

meredithb · February 2008

And that is why loading zones are needed. Get rid a few parking spaces and create loading zones in every commercial area during weekday hours. Instead, NYC invites chaos.

new2hood · February 2008

the juniors situation is rediculous. why a cop just doesn't stand there and write tickets is beyond me.

dixiecupdrinking · February 2008

Long-time lurker, first-time poster, and how boring of me to choose a thread about double-parking for my debut. BUT. I heard from a Manhattan UPS driver that he pretty much assumes he'll get ticketed for double-parking whenever he's working. The company pays the tickets; it's part of the cost of doing business in NYC. The situation may be different on Flatbush, I don't know. But even if they do get ticketed regularly for double-parking, I don't think it'd be much of a deterrent.. what other option is there for a busy delivery guy?

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