These curmudgeons at the Port Authority are still stuck in the 1960′s. The new trains don’t even look modern!

Of I still can’t shake the feeling that the one at 57th and 8th in Manh. was actually there before she took over at DOT. Not sure.

NYPD Parking Ticket Scofflaw Cost City Millions in Abuse Payouts

“I’d get five tickets at a time for the same violation,” he said. “I’ve had six or seven cars towed. They’re not supposed to do that.”

Gawad said he had to park illegally outside his Manhattan workplace because he has a disease. When pressed on the exact nature of his malady, he said it was a mystery.

The data on trip generation for trucks is spotty, and even the official data for customers is weak. I had to do some specific surveys myself of motion picture/broadcasting studios, that were an issue.

My research on environmental and quality of life impact by use was exhaustive. It included thousands of hours of tabulating ECB complaints and California Air Resources data by type of business, and normalizing by the number of businesses and employment.

All this information was never published, and is perhaps gone. I have a copy but in an obsolete format (Quattro, Wordperfect) on an obsolete medium (zipdisk).

Sigh.

(An assisted living facility near me provides a weekly bus from lower manhattan to the supermarket across the Hudson. That seems pretty efficient to me.)

FYI, nothing generates more truck traffic and deliveries than a grocery store. It is a high-volume operation with perishable products. Large chains may consolodate deliveries in 18 wheelers from a central warehouse, but smaller supermarkets and grocers will get deliveries from many panel trucks.

This was dicussed in detail when I was the project leader for the never-published Commerical Use and Parking Study at City Planning. As I recall, Adolfo Carrion, then a community board district manager, suggested limiting the curb space in front of the supermarkets to loading zones.

While I was there, DCP proposed allowing new supermarkets in industrial zones, which tend to be located next to poor neighborhoods that lack decent supermarkets. The City Council, paid off by (drum roll please) Richard Lipsky, refused to go along. He represented the incumbents that attract the trucks double parked on local commericial streets.