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In Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, a pilot program aimed at reducing alternate-side parking (ASP) days from four to two per week proved ineffective. Only 62% of drivers complied, leading city officials and councilmember Crystal Hudson to conclude that residents were too lazy or unwilling to move their cars despite the reduced requirement. With an average of 457 tickets issued monthly during the eight-week trial period—more than when ASP was in effect twice as often—the program was deemed a failure and regular ASP rules have been reinstated.
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In Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, an eight-week pilot program aimed at reducing alternate-side parking days from four to two failed due to low compliance. Only 62% of drivers moved their cars during the reduced schedule, down from 73% before the trial began. As a result, drivers in this neighborhood received more tickets on average — about 457 per month — compared to when the rules were stricter but less frequent. City Councilmember Crystal Hudson suggested that some drivers found it economically worthwhile to pay the $65 ticket rather than comply with the parking rules. The Department of Sanitation emphasized the importance of clean streets, noting that street sweepers can collect up to 1,500 lbs of litter per shift, which impacts flooding and neighborhood aesthetics.
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Prospect Heights drivers proved they are too lazy, greedy and dirty for the privilege of dropping their alternate-side parking rules two just two days a week, according to city officials and records.
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they → prove → officials
The leafy Brooklyn nabe miserably failed the eight-week pilot program — which took ASP parking days from four to two — with a little more than half its drivers finding the willpower to move their cars for the 1.5-hour inconvenience, officials revealed Thursday.
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officials → fail → inconvenience
At an average of 457 tickets per month, Prospect Heights drivers were actually receiving more summonses than they were when alternate-side rules were in effect for double the amount of time.
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rules → receive → time
Just 62% of drivers actually moved their cars for the reduced alternate-side parking days — dropping from 73% the month before the testing program went into effect.
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program → move → effect
City Councilmember Crystal Hudson, who pushed for the pilot program, theorizes that drivers fell asleep at the wheel — with many deciding the cost of a $65 ticket was worth keeping their coveted spot in the notoriously hard-to-park neighborhood.
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cost → push → neighborhood
“For people who count the tickets as just the cost of owning a car in New York City, maybe they’d rather just get one ticket than two,” Hudson told Gothamist.
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Hudson → count → Gothamist
I’m disappointed.
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I → ’m → ?
I was hoping to have it become a permanent change.
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it → hop → ?
But we’ve got to do better.”
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we → get → ?
Regular ASP rules have resumed in the neighborhood — meaning drivers are back to enduring four-day street sweeping.
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drivers → resume → sweeping
It also means Prospect Heights drivers have lost their right to whine about the annoying multi-week car dance that comes with the routine.
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that → mean → routine
Hudson said her office has for years fielded requests from residents who question whether the twice-weekly sweepings per side of the road were necessary — especially because it leads to the nabe being littered with more double parking than trash.
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nabe → say → trash
The pilot program testing the theory reduced ASP to two days for a roughly 10-by-two-block area from Atlantic Avenue to Eastern Parkway, between Vanderbilt Avenue and Grand Avenue.
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program → test → Avenue
It was meant to be a “carrot-and-stick” type of approach that promised less enforcement if there was more compliance — but drivers proved too lazy.
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drivers → mean → enforcement
“We estimate that citywide, about 500,000 cars every week fail to move for the street sweeper.
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cars → estimate → sweeper
This has a real impact on the look and feel of our streets — no one likes seeing litter along the curbline, and the street sweeper can pick up 1,500 lbs of litter on an average shift — but even more than that, litter on the street ends up in the catchbasins and sewers and can make flooding worse,” a DSNY spokesperson said.
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spokesperson → have → catchbasins
we don’t ask people to move their cars just because we feel like it, but because it’s the best way to get the street clean and failing to do so has real-world consequences.”
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failing → ask → consequences
The program started off rough — with parking enforcers erroneously slapping several drivers with tickets after apparently failing to get the message that the rules were suspended in its first week.
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rules → start → week
Hudson’s office promised neighbors that the botched tickets would be waived — and they ultimately did not contribute to the staggering number that determined the pilot was a failure.
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pilot → promise → number
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