Parking In NYC Saima Ahmed Vincent Buscemi Bryan Fox Rezaul Hazmin Nari Kyak Shetal Patel Albert...

Parking In NYC

Saima Ahmed Vincent Buscemi

Bryan FoxRezaul Hazmin

Nari KyakShetal Patel

Albert RodriguezErkan Savluk

A Little Info on Parking A Little Info on Parking & Parking Tickets& Parking Tickets•10, 114 Parking Meters in

Manhattan and Queens

•Traffic Division is becoming stricter

•Meter Tickets below 96th St are generally $65

•Other Areas average $35

Problems with Parking in NYC

• Time Consuming• Confusing Signs• Dangerous• Unsatisfactory Parking Meters• Uncompromising & Unseasoned Meter

Maids• Illegible Tickets • Impossible to Overturn in Court

Time Consuming

•Never seems to be enough parking

•Can drive around for hours

•No guarantee of finding a spot at all

Confusing Signs• Too much

information to absorb

• Conflicting rules based on days and times of day

• Arrows seemingly pointing every which way.

Dangerous• Due to the

confusion, many people slow down to see if a spot is legal

• Pay attention more to signs and spots than the driving

• Leads to many traffic accidents

Unsatisfactory Parking Meters

•Many broken meters

•Many meters do not keep correct time

•Meters begin at inconvenient times

Unsatisfactory Parking Meters

continued…• Many meters have 2 hour increments causing people to return to their car prematurely

• Muni-meters cause a gap between parking and having the receipt to be parked legally

Uncompromising & Unseasoned Meter

Maids• Quotas force the meter maids to write tickets they might not write without quotas

• Some meter maids are very unprofessional

• Parking cops are usually the newer officers

Illegible TicketsIllegible Tickets• Tickets are

sometimes impossible to read

• Pencil Smudges

• Police Writing is Illegible

• Cannot decipher the price of the ticket

Impossible to Overturn in Court

• Parking Tickets cost a great deal of money and surcharges are even more

• If a parking ticket is brought to court, the judge is completely uninterested in hearing your side, completely disregarding what may be a different truth

Current Solution Current Solution Brought Forth By NYCBrought Forth By NYC

• Muni-Meters– One per block– Pay and get ticket– Walk back to car and

display ticket in windshield

– Time consuming – Some have gotten

tickets while walking between car and meter

Possible SolutionsPossible Solutionsfor Unsatisfactory for Unsatisfactory

MetersMeters• Scotland and England have implemented Solar Power Meters

• These Meters accept:– Credit Cards– Debit Cards– Cash– Charge Via Mobile

Phone

Possible SolutionsPossible Solutionsfor Unsatisfactory for Unsatisfactory

MetersMeters• Solar Meters continued…– Register by phone or

on computer once– Call a central number

to say where you are parked

– Meter charged to credit card or debit card

– Receive text message reminder of when time is up

Possible Solution for Possible Solution for Illegible TicketsIllegible Tickets

•Carry Around Palm Pilot with Printer

•Easier to Read•Easier to File &

Keep Records for individual and City

Correlation to Correlation to Christian EthicsChristian Ethics

• Many of these traffic problems lead to dishonesty

• Meter Maid’s quotas lead to unwarranted tickets

• Ticket recipients will do or say anything to get out of paying