Alternate Side Parking

[Joel S. Berson]

At 11/16/2012 10:58 AM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>In NYC, street cleaning regulations historically have banned parking twice
>a week. One side of a street would have a ban on parking for 90 minutes on
>Mondays and Thursdays. The ban would apply on the other side of the street
>on Tuesdays and Fridays. This was called Alternate Side of the Street
>Parking for a long time, and has been shortened to Alternate Side Parking
>by the NYC DOT:
>
>http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/motorist/scrintro.shtml#2012
>
>In the outer boroughs, however, Alternate Side Parking does not actually
>take place on alternate days. Street cleaning has been reduced to once a
>week.
>
>When will the City of New York finally come to grips with the reality that
>Alternate Side Parking no longer is for most of the parking public?
>
>DanG

Because it's still alternate sides, even though not alternate
days?  But even in the olden days, Tuesdays and Thursdays weren't
alternate days, unless one's week didn't have a Wednesday.

Joel


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