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100% - it does feel like a massive grift. Also, there are so many useless blocks in this city, especially outside of manhattan where there might be a dense popu
by j0hnyl 4y ago
100% - it does feel like a massive grift. Also, there are so many useless blocks in this city, especially outside of manhattan where there might be a dense population that has cars, but they're limited to parallel parking, when in fact there's plenty of room to have angled parking if you allow the cars to park halfway on the sidewalk. This is how it's done in many European cities, and even with their sidewalks that are actually 2x narrower than ours, there's plenty of room for cars and for pedestrians. NYC should zone a bunch of these useless extra wide sidewalks that no one needs for angled parking and just solve the problem over night.
- busterarm 4y agoEuropean cities typically don't have the same level of crime as NYC's outer boroughs...historically. Angled parking presents a problem when people want to lie in wait to rob you. It's also difficult for street-level cameras to track people. Guaranteed NYC will never do this.
- klyrs 4y agoI must be missing something obvious... what about angled parking makes it especially friendly to robbers?
- busterarm 4y agoIt's extremely easy to hide, invisibly, between cars with angled parking. Angled parking also shortens the gap between your front and back tires perpendicular to the street. Less light passing through means less opportunity to see shadows that shouldn't be there.
- TomSwirly 4y agoI lived there for thirty years. The idea that slanted parking would lead to a wave of mugging is simply silly. In reality, crime in New York City is at record lows: https://www.disastercenter.com/crime/nycrime.htm https://www.disastercenter.com/crime/nycrime.htm > It's also difficult for street-level cameras to track people. And that's another good thing.
- busterarm 4y agohttps://nypost.com/2022/08/17/west-village-is-epicenter-of-rising-big-apple-crime-nypd-data/ https://nypost.com/2022/08/17/west-village-is-epicenter-of-r...
- j0hnyl 4y agoI'm certain they will never do it, but one can dream. I mean, they already do it for police precincts. I have not considered the crime element that you're describing either, but this doesn't need to be a citywide initiative, they can take it block per block.