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发帖数: 7881 | 1 This means war! I got another $165 ticket on Wednesday for parking in a
perfectly legal spot next to a pedestrian curb cut — and an NYPD cop told
me right to my face the law “does not matter.”
“No matter what the law says, if you park alongside a pedestrian ramp, you
’re going to get a ticket,” explained the duty sergeant at the 52nd
Precinct station house, as I showed him the evidence proving my innocence.
“It’s the human aspect we’re looking at. The ramp is there to aid people
crossing the street. It’s there for a reason.”
Great, so I’m the bad guy — and the NYPD will continue to make millions of
dollars off people who don’t know the law.
I pressed on. “But the street is a one-way and it would be suicide to cross
at that intersection,” I told the sarge, noting how the spots became legal
in 2009. “Not to mention the fact that it’s technically illegal to cross
where there are no crosswalks.”
His answer left me speechless.
“If the law was changed, then you know you can get out of the ticket. Just
keep taking it down there and beating it,” the sergeant said unabashedly,
before passing the buck to the Department of Transportation.
“Or, you know what, reach out to the DOT and ask them why they put
pedestrian ramps in spots that are dangerous. Why are they located in areas
without crosswalks? But by all means, keep parking there . . .
and then beat the ticket,” he said.
I have already beaten three of the tickets and have three more to go.
The NYPD said Thursday they had been educating the rank-and-file not to
issue the pedestrian-ramp tickets — but if cops are getting the memo, they
are willfully ignoring it.
“The department sent a training message to all officers clarifying the rule
change and has communicated to commanders of precincts with the highest
number of summonses, informing them of the issues within their command,”
officials explained in a statement.
Luckily for drivers who coughed up the $165, all is not lost.
City Councilman Vincent Gentile, who pushed for the pedestrian ramp law
change in 2009, said Thursday he is currently working to get ticketed
drivers reimbursed — and he plans to also lean on the NYPD to hammer home
the message.
“The city shouldn’t be keeping money that belongs to drivers,” Gentile
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