NYC Proposal Offers Cash for Spotting Parking Violations in Bike Lanes

I would love if cities did the same with AirBnbs that break the local zoning ordinances.

Yup: https://twitter.com/copsinbikelanes

Reducing the issuance of placards won't solve anything if parking isn't enforced. The governing class (NYPD, FDNY, city government workers) in NYC starts their day by driving in and parking wherever they please knowing full well that they won't be held to the same laws that citizens are supposed to be. Many workers even deface or remove license plates so they can't be ticketed by automated cameras.

I would love citizen cell apps to enable enforcement, but I'm not hopeful. I would think that more cops would remove license plates and harass those trying to hold them to account. I truly don't know how it is possible to make NYPD accountable, maybe a federal intervention.

https://twitter.com/placardabuse

This is a huge issue- it's rare that I find a stretch of two blocks in Manhattan or Brooklyn that doesn't have a car sitting in the bike lane. Double parking seems to be a way of life (remember the Seinfeld episode?). About half the time there's someone in the car which might make this complicated, but I love that someone is raising this.