Comments on: Two Doubleparked Traffic Agents, Sunnyside Up

By: steveo

steveo — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:26:55 +0000

Uh, most of the rest of us don't drive.

By: cityslicker

cityslicker — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 13:27:22 +0000

Hmm........... Seems to me the people who are most offended by them simply having a meal ( that cant be no more than 30 mins. ) are the SAME exact people who clog up all our city streets with thier cars as they drop in for Dunkin Donuts, stay in bus stops while they wait for granny to get out the bodega,leave small children in running cars thinking this will avoid getting a ticket... meanwhile the rest of us just have to drive around em as well. sigh*

By: ddartley

ddartley — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 17:37:27 +0000

It's with a demented good intention that people pull over to double park (often in bike lanes). They think they're helping to allow traffic to flow by getting out of the way. But of course they're still obstructing the car lane anyway--and often a bike lane as well, therefore doing three times as much harm--they hurt: motorists, cyclists, and legal parkers. If they would just double park in a car lane W/O pulling over, they would leave the bike lane free (and not force cyclists into traffic), allow legal parkers to move, and NOT hurt motorists any more than they already are by double-parking in the first place. I wish the city would go on a publicity campaign saying, "if you must double-park, stay in the car lane, do not pull into a bike lane." Of course every time I send that idea to a City official, they CAN NOT process it--it's just tooooo complicated for their bureaucratic brains. ALL they hear is, "get out of the bike lane," which of course doesn't get anywhere. (Just another reason that as long as side-of-street parking exists, side-of-street bike lanes will continue to be as bad as they are good, IMO.) Ramble on, as Robert Plant said.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 16:28:28 +0000

i'm sure this happens all the time. double parking not only create's hazards and headaches for motorist, bicyclist get the shaft as well... forcing them further into traffic. thanks police! just shows where the term 'pig' comes from. police should be setting examples not creating new problems. i know there is such a thing as citizen's arrest, but maybe there should be citizen's ticketing too!

By: glenn

glenn — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 15:37:00 +0000

no, the cars were not on the sidewalk, Amsterdam has 6 lanes. In this case 4 are being used for regular and double parking combined, leaving only two for through traffic.

By: Joe (BikingToronto)

Joe (BikingToronto) — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 15:16:03 +0000

Is it just me or does it look like these aren't doubleparked? They look like they are in parking spots (you can see the sidewalk pretty close behind the left car) - but the car behind the right car throws things off - it makes it look like the two cars are double parked - but that car, if you look closely, is parked on the sidewalk.

By: tommEE pickles

tommEE pickles — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 01:09:08 +0000

10th precinct by chelsea is famous for this. Its funny because the precinct is just a block away when they do it. I guess they don't want the boss to say "time to lean, time to clean"