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Soon in New York, the rule of alternative parking will fully work again

'19.04.2022'

Nadezhda Verbitskaya

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Alternative parking rules in New York go into full effect on July 5th. This means that most motorists will once again have to move their cars twice a week due to street cleaning. Daily News.

Mayor Adams' announcement is a reversal of changes made by former Mayor Bill de Blasio in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Introduced on March 17, 2020, the policy required drivers on most residential streets to change their parking space only one day a week instead of two.

De Blasio's order was intended to help people stay at home to fight the virus. However, it has been in force for more than two years. This gave car owners a long break and also allowed the city's streets to get dirtier.

“This has gone on too long and has pretty much sidelined the best street cleaning tool in our arsenal: the mechanical broom,” City Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a news conference on her first day as department head. “The secret behind the pollution is that one day a week instead of two has contributed to a lack of cleaning in many parts of the city.”

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Adams touted a return to pre-pandemic alt-party rules as part of a "street cleanup" effort. Prior to the pandemic, some city streets had spare side parking three or more days a week. Officials said they would be restored. And they promised to issue fines of $65 to drivers who break the rules.

Sean Bellamy, a car owner who lives in Crown Heights, said it was a welcome return to normalcy. “The streets are a lot dirtier than they used to be,” said Bellamy, 55, a contractor. “I move my car, but other people don’t.”

The restoration of parking regulations is part of an $11 million increase in Department of Sanitation funding that includes the purchase of new, nimble wipers designed to clean up the city's bike lane network. Tish said small sweepers would clean the bike lanes once a week.

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“I like the way things are now,” André Charles, 55, said as he smoked a cigarette in his two-car parked Toyota SUV in front of his apartment building on Empire Boulevard in Brooklyn. “There are benefits to changing your parking spot once a week,” he said. “It’s better for me, but the streets were dirtier.”

The city's environmental department commissioner Rohit Aggarwala said cleaner streets and curbs would help keep the city's sewer system and 153 street tanks from clogging. Clogged trash cans became a problem last September when Hurricane Ida hit five districts with rain. The storm clogged so many pools that city officials have asked local residents to clean up some of them to help floodwater runoff.

“The more we clean up, the more people comply with the alternative parking rules, the safer our city will be from floods,” Aggarwala said.

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