Chinatown: The Government Parking Lot
From today's
Daily News:
Paul Steely White, executive director of Transportation Alternatives, a watchdog group, said "basically nothing has changed" since
The Daily News conducted a six-week investigation in 1999 showing widespread abuse of tens of thousands of the city-issued parking placards.
He charged that many of the culprits are cops.
"Chinatown is being choked to death because the sidewalks and streets are so saturated with illegal parkers," White said. "The community is at the end of their rope because the very people with the power to remedy the situation are the worst offenders."
The New York City Streets Renaissance web site has two videos that illustrate the problem:
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