Mayor Bloomberg needs to go one step further and look closely at the vehicles given to city employees (“Bloomy Gets Into Park Row,” Nov. 27).
I live in lower Manhattan, and I cannot find an illegal parking space, let alone a legal one, because official vehicles take all the spaces. They never move. Neither do they get tickets, despite parking and street-cleaning regulations.
The cars must not be necessary for the employees if they take up the same parking spaces for weeks at a time.
Forget congestion pricing. Take away the free cars, make city employees buy their own cars and, if they need to drive to work, let them pay the tolls and parking like the rest of us.
The city will save millions, and the MTA’s coffers will get the revenue they claim it needs. Maybe even we residents can get the occasional parking space.
J. Chmiel, Manhattan