Government Workers’ Parking Perks Cost NYC’ers $46 Million a Year

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A new study that was commissioned by Transportation Alternatives, a transportation advocacy group, showed that on average 19,200 fewer cars would drive into a Manhattan and up to $46 million in parking meter revenue could be generated if government workers were stripped of their free parking privelages.

For a city that’s always crying broke, that sounds like a pretty damn good plan to me. Of course, if I was a one of the government employees who got to park for free in Manhattan everyday, I might be singing a different tune. As it stands however, there are a lot more of us than there are of them.

The study found that 47,000 government employees, or 26% of the 177,300 government employees working in Manhattan south of 59th St., drive to work. Two-thirds of these government workers are employees of the City of New York.

In April, the Daily News published an exclusive report about a Transportation Alternatives study that found 115 government-employee cars illegally parked on sidewalks or in pedestrian areas - many of them also blocking fire hydrants - during a single hour on March 29 in Chinatown and around City Hall.

I guess I should have listened to my parents and gone into politics. Who know it would be such a lucrative business by now?

Parking perks cost city 46M [Daily News]