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Breaking News: Parked Legally? The City has Switched the NYC Parking Regulations Signs and Given You a Parking Ticket!

NYPD traffic agents have been writing Manhattan parking tickets on streets that are/were legal to park. Apparently, on the East Side of West End Ave in Manhattan in the 60s & 70s, the City has changed the signs from alternate side of the street parking regulations to "No standing 4pm-7pm (M-F)". The problem is, they made this change in the last couple of days while people were legally parked at an alternate side regulation which said: "No parking 8am-9:30am (Tu & F)". So the question is, can the City change an NYC parking sign while someone is legally parked and then give them a parking ticket?

If this happens to you, you can fight this ticket and it should be dismissed.
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Will the City Government put all the NYC parking regulations online?

Recently, Councilman John Liu introduced a bill that would require the city's Department of Transportation to put all of New York City's parking regulations online, block-by-block.

Liu belives that this info should be available to the public, just as it is to judges whp preside over NYC parking ticket cases in court.

I wonder if Councilman Liu knows that we already have Manhattan parking regulations available online accessible from our Parking Search Engine here?

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Alt side parking rules suspended Monday - 3/19/07

The New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) in conjunction with the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) today announced the suspension of Alternate Side Parking (ASP) regulations citywide for Monday, March 19, 2007. However, parking meters and all other parking regulations will remain in effect throughout the City. It's hard to say what will happen for the rest of the week, depends mostly on the weather. You can always sign up to have these blog posts delivered directly to your inbox (free, of course) so that you'll know as soon as I do.

alt side rules suspended - 2/26/07

Alternate side of the street parking regulations (the street cleaning rules) have been suspended for today, 2/26/07 in NYC. Looks like Bloomberg got the message loud and clear that New Yorkers want to be given a break from parking tickets when there is bad weather. As reported in today's New York Times: "New York City suspended alternate side of the street parking rules today, apparently reacting to criticism of the city’s decision to keep the street cleaning rules in effect after the Valentine’s Day snow storm."

I say: "Good"! The City makes so much money from all of us paying our parking tickets that they can afford to cut us all some slack once in a while.

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Alt Side Street Cleaning rules suspended today (2/21/07)

The Alternate Side Street Cleaning parking rules have been suspended today - 2/21/07 - as NYC is finishing up with snow removal from last week's snow/sleet storm. Originally last week, Mayor Bloomberg decided not to suspend these parking regulations, but reversed his decision after an outcry from both the public and the media. Here is a post that talks about Bloomberg's reasons for not wanting to suspend these parking rules.

The street cleaning regulations are already suspended for tomorrow, which is Ash Wednesday. For a complete list of NYC Holiday parking suspensions, check out this post .

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