Riverside Boulevard in Manhattan has a new law – cars cannot be parked on the street from 6am-4pm, but limo services can.
A two-block stretch of parking space was recently converted to a limousine-only lane, allowing black cars to wait at curbside, protected from tickets by red signs newly installed by the city’s Transportation Department.
Although dedicated black-car zones aren’t that unusual in front of New York’s office buildings, they’re not common in residential areas.
The move came after many complaints about black cars double-parking in front of residential buildings on Riverside Boulevard.
A New Law in New York is Creating Mixed Reactions
Long Island party buses and limos that pick up passengers by arrangement is a perk of the corporate life, so why should the every day person be affected by it?
Package delivery trucks, mail vehicles and any car that’s not a limo, are now going to get ticketed for double parking since the lane is now a dedicated limo zone.
The newly-painted lanes are causing mixed reactions.
The Transportation Department said residents had complained that double-parked cars were a danger to traffic passing along Riverside Boulevard.
Only time will tell if this new law will be a challenge, or a step in the right direction for New York traffic.
Read the full article in The New York Times.
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