Alternate Side Parking

[Dan Goncharoff]

I admit I had not thought about this enough, and appreciate the alternate
side vs alternate day perspective.

Another issue is the use of the same sign:

http://a841-dotvweb01.nyc.gov/ParkingRegs/signlegend.aspx

to refer to both Alternate Side Parking and daily (usually "except Sunday")
bans for street cleaning in the 30-180 minutes before parking meters become
effective. As the above website shows, these are together referred to
as STREET CLEANING PARKING REGULATIONS.

In the aftermath of Sandy, the city announced the suspension of both
Alternate Side Parking and Meter regulations. Where do the daily street
cleaning regulations come in?

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2012/pr12_60.shtml

DanG


On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Nov 16, 2012, at 8:07 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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> > 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?
>
> Agreed; in Hartford, for example, you can park on (only) one side of a
> residential street Tuesday-Friday and (only) on the other side
> Saturday-Monday.  Alternate sides, but not alternate days.  And "alternate
> sort-of-half-week parking" doesn't really cut it.
>
> LH
>
> > 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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