Great website on civil servants, doctors, etc. who abuse parking privileges.
Example: cop parks his $70,000 Corvette on River Terrace at Warren Street. Parks in the exact same spot for 14 months. Uses his unmarked car to hold his spot when he takes his Vette out. In the above picture, said Vette with car cover that hasn’t been moved since before last months’s storm cannot possibly be on ‘official police duty.’
Transportation Alternatives, champion of drug-addled cyclists and 12-step pedicab drivers, says — and we agree — that municipal employees, especially the police, abuse their city-issued parking permits. The group estimates that at least 150,000 drivers — more than 12.5 times the number of yellow cab drivers — have such permits.
Parking permits, says TA, have become de facto salary bonuses. A Police Department Spokesman disputes this, claiming that permits do not allow police or other vehicles to park at bus stops or fire hydrants. Indeed, several weeks ago, the Police Department towed 12 vehicles displaying police and court permits that were parked illegally in Chinatown.
Okay, but did they pay the $600 ticket and pound fees?
-- Swapon Nath