![]() Loading/unloading zones should be placed on side streets as much as possible to reduce congestion on the main artery being served.ģ. Painting can range from a painted X in a box to the range of the zone being completely covered in a certain, distinct color.Ģ. Loading/unloading zones should be painted to some extent to demarcate them from other parking. As add-ons to the existing idea, based on my education from the courses I have taken in urbanism, and lived experience, I’d like to contribute the following 7 points:ġ. I enthusiastically support the construction of the new loading/unloading zones that the DOT is proposing, and believe that it’s a major step in the right direction for reducing automobile congestion, street chaos, and stress for delivery drivers and average drivers alike. *: an explicit evaluation should be designed to address the value to NYC in aligning its vehicle policies with its climate and mobility goals. Public transportation should be considered possible where the labor costs of additional transit times are double* the cost of NYC buying and maintaining that vehicle. ![]() Micromobility solutions should also be explored. In the case that public transportation is possible, NYC should not issue vehicles, but should require public transportation be taken. In the case that vehicles are required for NYC civil servants to conduct their jobs during working hours, vehicles should be issued where those vehicles can be evaluated for weight and emissions and safety in line with NYC’s goals and priorities. If these taxes have not been paid, then NYC has itself been complicit in massive tax fraud. The tax forms of these placard holders should be evaluated to ensure that these taxes of benefits were indeed paid to federal, state, and local tax authorities. (Retroactive, full-cost accounting should be completed to estimate the amount of benefit this provided to placard holders. Placards should never be issued for initial to-from work commuting. ![]() Moreover, this liability could entail physically endangering or harming people in NYC, and should not be tolerated. It is not acceptable to expose tax payers to liabilities in this way. Liability should be created in this way in the case that injuries or damages occur as a result of city-endorsed parking in no-parking zones. Subparagraph (ii) of Paragraph (3)“ should not carve out an exception for private vehicles to park in public spaces. There are too many city-issued placards incentivizing a privatization of public space that endangers the tax payers of NYC and is contrary to NYC climate goals. ![]()
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