Comments on: Parking Guru Donald Shoup Coming to Town Monday http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/12/07/parking-guru-donald-shoup-coming-to-town-monday/ Covering the New York City Streets Renaissance Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: No Permit Parking signs for NYC http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/12/07/parking-guru-donald-shoup-coming-to-town-monday/comment-page-1/#comment-44587 No Permit Parking signs for NYC Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:32:43 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/12/07/parking-guru-donald-shoup-coming-to-town-monday/#comment-44587 To Hilary, No, I don't have a sign-making company. I have witnessed, for the last eight months, a working system in Chinatown that has reduced parking permit abuse by about 90-95%. The posting of No Permit Parking signs by the local police precinct, along with follow up ticketing/towing has helped lower Mott Street tremendously - local businesses can actually conduct business and citizens can park, eat and shop without being blocked by government sector commuter cars. No Permit Parking signs are a low-cost/low-tech way of enforcing existing laws, discouraging illegal parking permit abuse, and reducing by many, many thousands the number of government sector commuters coming into Manhattan. All the benefits of congestion pricing. without the high-cost and big brother cameras, AND $46-million per year gained in parking meter revenue. When will people on this blog wake up and support this? Community Boards 2 and 3 have already unanimously passed resolutions requesting No Permit Parking signs from the D.O.T.!!! To Hilary,
No, I don’t have a sign-making company.

I have witnessed, for the last eight months, a working system in Chinatown that has reduced parking permit abuse by about 90-95%. The posting of No Permit Parking signs by the local police precinct, along with follow up ticketing/towing has helped lower Mott Street tremendously – local businesses can actually conduct business and citizens can park, eat and shop without being blocked by government sector commuter cars.

No Permit Parking signs are a low-cost/low-tech way of enforcing existing laws, discouraging illegal parking permit abuse, and reducing by many, many thousands the number of government sector commuters coming into Manhattan. All the benefits of congestion pricing. without the high-cost and big brother cameras, AND $46-million per year gained in parking meter revenue.

When will people on this blog wake up and support this? Community Boards 2 and 3 have already unanimously passed resolutions requesting No Permit Parking signs from the D.O.T.!!!

]]> By: Hilary http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/12/07/parking-guru-donald-shoup-coming-to-town-monday/comment-page-1/#comment-41375 Hilary Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:55:54 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/12/07/parking-guru-donald-shoup-coming-to-town-monday/#comment-41375 Do you have a sign-making company? Do you have a sign-making company?

]]> By: No Permit Parking signs for NYC http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/12/07/parking-guru-donald-shoup-coming-to-town-monday/comment-page-1/#comment-41371 No Permit Parking signs for NYC Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:15:18 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/12/07/parking-guru-donald-shoup-coming-to-town-monday/#comment-41371 The High Cost of Free Parking costs NYC $46-million a year from lost parking meter revenue because of government sector parking permit abuse [Bruce Schaller 2006]. That's about $300-million that NYC has lost since 9/11. Will Shoup bring this up in his discussions? Why hasn't Shoup ever brought up the posting of simple, and extremely cheap, NO PERMIT PARKING signs to discuourage thousands of government sector commuters from parking illegally? The ABSENCE of No Permit Parking signs in NYC is an open invitation, encouraging permit holders to park "freely", albeit illegally. NO PERMIT PARKING signs are a necessary reeducation tool to physically change the outdated policy that allows government sector commuters to break the law thousands of times a day and cost NYC $46-million a year. The High Cost of Free Parking costs NYC $46-million a year from lost parking meter revenue because of government sector parking permit abuse [Bruce Schaller 2006]. That’s about $300-million that NYC has lost since 9/11. Will Shoup bring this up in his discussions? Why hasn’t Shoup ever brought up the posting of simple, and extremely cheap, NO PERMIT PARKING signs to discuourage thousands of government sector commuters from parking illegally? The ABSENCE of No Permit Parking signs in NYC is an open invitation, encouraging permit holders to park “freely”, albeit illegally. NO PERMIT PARKING signs are a necessary reeducation tool to physically change the outdated policy that allows government sector commuters to break the law thousands of times a day and cost NYC $46-million a year.

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