Tight squeeze as NYC drivers brace for return of alternate side parkingBy Alex Mitchell
July 5, 2022
Nothing drives frustration like keeping a car on the street in NYC.
Alternate side parking has been the scourge of city drivers for the better part of a century — and it’s about to get a whole lot worse.
NYC has opted to reinstate two-day-a-week ASP on July 5, after pausing the painful policy in March 2020 at the start of the pandemic. For two years now, drivers around the Big Apple have enjoyed once-a-week street cleaning, which means fewer morning car moves. Now, hundreds of city-dwellers have already signed an online petition to put the new ruling in reverse.
The full return of ASP won’t just be like going back to the pre-COVID days either — there’s a significantly higher amount of cars in town now.
From August to October in 2020, car registrations rose 76% in Manhattan and 45% in Brooklyn, the New York Times reported.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2022/07/05/return-of-alternate-side-parking-has-nyc-in-tight-squeeze/
