Posted on May 27th, 2013

Have you noticed how inefficient the systems of New York are in the area of deliveries? A good chunk of traffic congestion can be attributed to delivery trucks double parking and blocking the flow of traffic: why does the City not enforce delivery parking bays within certain hours so that trucks can park legally and not block the roads, thereby making our lives less miserable?

According to Crain’s, FedEx and UPS have racked up a combined $2.8 million in city parking tickets in just the first three months of 2013. They and other commercial delivery companies account for 20 percent to 30 percent of the roughly 10 million parking tickets that get dished out annually in New York.

So the City is actually ENCOURAGING this practice so that it can collect parking fines to generate income, while ignoring the plight of the taxpayers whose lives are made miserable by the congestion. Parking tickets act as a form of taxation, yet the cost of issuing and collecting these tickets is prohibitive. The two delivery giants are among the biggest gold mines for the city, which expects to collect $550 million off parking violations this year. Others left with big illegal-parking tabs include Verizon, the US Postal Service and Time Warner.

DISGRACEFUL!