Last Updated on November 6, 2018 by Lawrence Berezin
NYC car sharing cars are allocated priceless on-street parking spaces
The NYC driving public is fit-to-be-tied, even though just 285 spaces are now ear-marked for NYC car sharing cars. Fair or Foul?
Let’s ask Elisa Ferreira, who was pushing her son, Mason, in a stroller through Hamilton Heights on a recent weekday, and complained that the 20 spots the city plans to remove from her neighborhood will just make the ordeal even worse.
“It’s already really hard to find parking,” Ms. Ferreira said. “It’s only going to be harder for us.’’ [Source: NY Times]
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NYC car sharing pilot program
What’s the story, DOT?
In line with recent City Council legislation, the NYC Department of Transportation is running a two-year citywide pilot to designate 285 parking spaces in municipal parking facilities and on-street in select neighborhoods for the use of car sharing companies.
Sign up directly with Zipcar and/or Enterprise CarShare to take advantage of this pilot program!
Carsharing is a service that gives members access to an automobile for short-term use ― usually by the minute, hour, or day ― at a cost that includes gas and insurance.
Ok, I get it. The NYC Council is to blame for this heinous law, but why’d they do it?
Here’s some great information that was given to us by Dan:
Here is a spreadsheet of all the on-street Carshare spaces –
https://files.acrobat.com/a/preview/7f5f449a-ca57-4c5d-9b48-ede2b3aa1014
The info was pulled from here –
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Transportation/Parking-Regulation-Locations-and-Signs/xswq-wnv9</a
Because NYC car sharing has the potential to:
- Improve local air quality and reduce congestion – New Yorkers who use carshare drive less than those who own their own car. Less driving means cleaner air and fewer cars on city streets.
- Shorten your search for parking by ensuring that car-sharers always have a reserved space. Better yet, adding carshare spaces reduces personal car ownership, which benefits all drivers in the neighborhood by lowering the number of cars competing for the curb.
- Lower household transportation costs by providing reliable access to a car without annual car insurance and maintenance bills, tickets, and unexpected costs. You only pay for as much or as little as you drive.
- Improve access to services, friends/family, and recreation by making a car available when you need one.
This pilot aims to put car share within convenient reach of more New Yorkers to increase the mobility and financial benefits of the service for residents and the city as a whole.
Here’s a list of the parking spaces.
How will we know which parking spaces are reserved for NYC car sharing?
The answer, you guessed it, is a parking sign.
Commentary
It’s only the beginning…
Here’s a back to the future moment you may wish to check out.
I got a sidewalk ticket for parking in front of my garage. My garage is on the odd side of the street, and across the street, on the even side, is a school building with the address on it as “4500 “. The officer wrote on my ticket by the empty space for “place of occurrence” he wrote “Opposite 4509 9th ave.
This address of 4509 9th ave. Brooklyn NY, does not exist, not on the even side and not on the odd side.
Is there any way I can fight this ticket?
Here is a spreadsheet of all the on-street Carshare spaces –
https://files.acrobat.com/a/preview/7f5f449a-ca57-4c5d-9b48-ede2b3aa1014
The info was pulled from here –
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Transportation/Parking-Regulation-Locations-and-Signs/xswq-wnv9
Hi, Dan,
Wow! Thanks so much.
I’ve added the info and links you were kind enough to share with us to the blog.
Regards,
Larry
You’re welcome. My home borough (S.I.) was originally supposed to have some carshare spaces in the municipal parking lots but that seems to be on hold for now. Carshare may appear up on the north shore where many don’t own cars. But I doubt we’ll ever see it on the east and south shores where nearly everyone has a car (one neighbor owns four) and there would be little demand for such a service. As you know only a handful of streets on S.I. have alternate side parking, further reducing the need for carshare services because on street spaces are plentiful. Nearly every private home on S.I. has a driveway.