A proposed change to alternate side parking rules is going before the City Council’s Transportation Committee today.
The bill would allow cars to legally park again once the street sweeper passes by, rather than wait for the end of the normal window.
City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez of Manhattan re-introduced the measure earlier this year.
He previously introduced it in 2010, where it won the support of current Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito.
NY1 spoke to some drivers who liked the idea.
“It would make perfect sense to allow them to park,” said one driver. “I mean, they come there for five minutes, street sweep, and then people got to wait like 40 minutes for the time to expire before they can leave their car.
“I think it’s a great idea,” said another. “Why would you wait? If the purpose is to clean the streets, clean the streets and let us go back.
“The sweepers come, like, an hour into your waiting, so you’d still have a wait, but it would help. It would definitely help,” said a third.
The Sanitation Department has raised some concerns about the bill, pointing out that sweepers often have to go back and re-do a street because all the cars hadn’t been moved.
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