Every Car on Beacon Ct Hit With Wrong Way Parking Ticket

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Dozens of “Wrong Way” parking tickets were issued last night to residents of the dead end section Beacon Court. The $45 tickets were issued by a Traffic Agent around 9:30pm last night, to anyone who dare park straight on the block. Everyone is flabbergasted – “Never in 30 years have I gotten a ticket for parking on this block” said one resident. Residents are even more angry and surprised because the block is filled with police, fireman, and various other city workers.

Of Course, there were a couple of tickets issued for missing plates and expired stickers – we can’t help those people – but maybe just maybe everyone on beacon ct. will have their tickets thrown out.

Apparently the thousands of people in Gerritsen Beach have been parking wrong all of these years!

Update:
8/4/2010 – 3:00 PM

Lew Fidler’s Office has written a letter of support for residents of Beacon Court – Residents should call Lew Fidler’s Office to get a copy to mail with with their not guilty plea.

Traffic Agents Make Bad Situation Death Trap

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Seriously, for those of Gerritsen Beach still at work or who don’t have children to pick up your lucky. We’ve covered the arrival/dissmall mess before here and here and honestly we have been letting everyone off easy.

In the past posts, it was the 61st precinct bowing to pressure to enforce the double parking. Recently every now and then a traffic agent, who looks lost, comes in and writes tickets. They mostly come in before dismissal and write tickets on Gerritsen Avenue for people parked in bus stops and if they see an expired registration/inspection. I have no problem with that, that is their job. However, they still have to obey all traffic laws just like anyone else, they can’t make U-turns, double park, etc.

As I was driving out yesterday I had the pleasure privilege of driving behind a traffic agent through dismissal. The parents cars were literality double parked on both sides of Gerritsen Avenue from Channel to Brenmans, it was a particularity bad day, maybe it was the snow coupled with a friday – who knows. The above agent would stop and go, not for the safety of children, but just to be scary. This agent was TRIPLE PARKING completely blocking north and south traffic. I guess they are allergic to getting out of their cars and walking to warn or issue tickets.

The parents cars were bad, this do-nothing agent, made matters worse. Forcing people into a panic driving through RED FLASHING stop lights on school buses and pulling out without looking.

GerritsenBeach.net will be getting back out there to highlight the problem again and maybe offer a solution. What ever happened to the parking lot? (ZING)

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