Submitted by Erik Feder - The Parking Expert, Mar 2, 2007 11:04

I believe that residential parking permits can work in Brooklyn. I have been deeply involved in all aspects of NYC parking for many years now as a result of my research for my books, website and parking search engine which all deal with finding legal street parking. I have also recently researched Boston, as we will be adding this city to our website soon. From my findings, I see no reason why a system similar to the one implemented in Boston would not work in Brooklyn. In Boston, select streets have signs that say "Residential permit parking only" while still others have this same regulation but also add a provision for "2 hour visitor parking" during specific times of day and days of the week. Mr. Yassky's idea of a "hunting license" makes good sense. So, why don't they want to implement it? I believe that the reason is simple: money. NYC earns well over $500 million annually SOLELY from parking ticket revenue. The more parking problems they solve, the less money they make. Just look at the issues concerning parking ticket quotas that have come up over the years. Mayor Bloomberg himself indicated that although there weren't quotas per say, there were "performance standards" (a rose by any other name), because the City needed to get the money from somewhere to fund maintenance, improvements, etc. NYC makes too much money from parking tickets to ever address parking problems in an efficient manner.

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