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NYC Adopts Double Parking Rule Limiting Commercial Vehicle Access

February 10, 2020 By New York Truckstop Leave a Comment

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In 2019 New York City issued almost three million parking tickets. That whopping number is clearly not enough for a city that views commercial vehicles as nothing more than ATM machines on wheels. The latest money-grubbing scheme relates to changes to commercial double parking rules.

The below is taken directly from DOT’s changes which will take effect on March 8th:

 

  • Section 4-08(f)(1) is amended to clarify double parking restrictions.
  • Section 4-08(l)(1) is REPEALED in its entirety.
  • Sections 4-08(l)(2) and 4-08(l)(3)(i) are amended to expand the area where double parking is prohibited from 8th Avenue to 12th

 

The Department of Transportation’s authority for these rules is found in section 2903(a) of the City Charter. Based on DOT’s final review of the rule and comments received from the public, references to

commercial vehicles were updated throughout and examples of what the term “actively engaged” means were added.

New material is underlined.

 

Section 1. Paragraph (1) of subdivision (f) of section 4-08 of Chapter 4 of Title 34 of the

Rules of the City of New York is amended to read as follows:

(1) Double parking. On the roadway side of a vehicle stopped, standing, or parked at the curb,

except a person may stand a commercial vehicle alongside a vehicle parked at the curb at such

locations and during such hours that stopping, standing, or parking is not prohibited, for no more

then 20 minutes, while [expeditiously] actively engaged in loading or unloading goods, tools,

materials, or other items for the purpose of making pickups, deliveries or service calls, provided

that there is no unoccupied parking space or designated loading zone on [either] the same side of

the street within [100 feet] the same block that can be used for such standing, and provided

further that such standing is in compliance with the provisions of §1102 of the State Vehicle and

Traffic Law. A person may stand a commercial vehicle along the roadway side of a bicycle lane

provided all other conditions of this paragraph are met. No person shall double park a

commercial vehicle when it blocks the only lane of travel in the same direction. No person shall

stand, stop or park a vehicle on a street at any time in such a manner or under such conditions as

to leave fewer than 10 feet of roadway width available for the free movement of vehicular traffic.

No person may stand a commercial vehicle in or along the roadway side of a bus lane unless

otherwise indicated by posted signs, markings or other traffic control devices, or at the direction

of a law enforcement officer or other person authorized to enforce this rule. [For the purposes of

this paragraph (f)(1), “expeditiously making pick-ups, deliveries or service calls” shall mean that

any period of inactivity at the pick-up, delivery or service-call location does not exceed 30

minutes. However, such definition shall in no way limit the discretion of the Department of

Finance Adjudication Tribunal to determine whether a violation of this paragraph has occurred.]

 

  • 2. Paragraph (1) of subdivision (l) of section 4-08 of Chapter 4 of Title 34 of the Rules of

the City of New York, relating to parking in the area designated as the Blue Zone, is

REPEALED, and the title of subdivision (l) is amended, to read as follows:

(l) [Blue zone, m]Midtown[,] and other special zones.

 

  • 3. Paragraphs (2) and subparagraph (i) of paragraph (3) of subdivision (l) of section 4-08

of Chapter 4 of Title 34 of the Rules of the City of New York are amended to read as follows:

(2) Special midtown rule: method of parking. Except where otherwise restricted, between the

hours of 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. daily, except Sundays, from 14th to 60th Streets, 1st to [8th] 12th

Avenues, all-inclusive, in the Borough of Manhattan, no operator of a commercial vehicle [or

combination of vehicles used for transportation of merchandise] shall stop, stand, or park in any

of the streets herein designated, other than parallel and [close to] no more than 12 inches from

the curb, and in a way that such a vehicle will not occupy [no] more than [ten] 10 feet of roadway

space from the nearest curb, and in no case shall any such vehicle be backed in at an angle to the

curb.

(3) Special midtown rule: standing time limit.

(i) Between the hours of 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., daily except Sundays, from 14th to 60th Streets, 1st

to [8th] 12th Avenues, all-inclusive, in the Borough of Manhattan no operator shall stand a

commercial vehicle [or combination of vehicles for the purpose of making pickups, deliveries or

service calls] in any one block of streets herein designated for a period of more than three hours

unless otherwise posted. A commercial vehicle [or combination of vehicles] not actively

engaged in loading or unloading goods, tools, materials, or other items for the purpose of [being

used for expeditious] pickups, deliveries or service calls is deemed to constitute a parked vehicle

subject to parking rules applicable to that particular location.

This should not be a hard and fast, one size fits all rule. Some deliveries can be done in twenty minutes or less, but many can’t. That’s why “expeditious” made so much sense. This rule change does not account for the practical ways in which deliveries and service calls are made, allowing commerce to flow. It is also egregious to claim that this is about attacking congestion, when, the true culprits of congestion (overdevelopment, the removal of parking and travel lanes, and the explosion of For-Hire Vehicles) are not addressed at all. There is something more important to consider though, repeatedly, New York has failed to provide adequate space for commercial vehicles. This is even more egregious in the wake of the city completely leaving out commercial loading zones from the new placard abuse crackdown. By omitting commercial loading zones from placard abuse more trucks will be forced to double park, which is now even more costly.

 

 

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