A "Parking License" Law is Needed

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Some people make their own spaces.

Silly Bugger Parking

There are two distinct skill sets necessary for being the operator of a motor vehicle. One is being able to make it go, stop and stay within the marked lanes while traveling from one place to another. The other set is the ability to park the vehicle in the designated spaces.


There ought to be two licences issued to people who want to operate a vehicle. There should be the Drivers License where they must read and know the laws and they must pass a proficiency test to prove they are capable of driving safely. The other license should be a Parking License.

Many parkers have no respect for fellow
parkers.

This guy was so far over the line that
he was in two spaces yet left just
enough room for a second car to
squeeze in.

Here is another person who can't
see well enough to park. Makes
you wonder about seeing well enough
to drive.

This trucker is just begging to be
 parked-in to that corner.

Many but not all of the photos shown here are people parking in Disability Permit Spots. They all have a permit or a plate to imply that they have the permission to park in these space. A survey conducted in MTA Commuter Train parking lots revealed that fully 25% of the users were using someone else's permit. What is not checked regularly is the ID card that is issued with all placards and plates that show to whom the permit was issued. During those "surveys" the Transit Police confiscated all bogusly used placards and issued violation citations. If the person chose to fight the ticket and could win they could have the permit back.

Most private property violations are ignored due to the Management not wanting to get into the quarrel and have to spend an time on the matter.

This guy really pissed me off because
that is my van he parked next to like that.

There are those people who should
understand the purpose of the
yellow lined space between spaces.
They don't.

Now this parker doesn't have a
"disability" to rely on for an explanation.
Just plain old rudeness.

Just plain and simple rudeness.

There is very little to do about the bad behaviors of people who drive cars and park like they are the only one that matters. More ticket issuance would do more to raise revenues than to change behaviors of the people who do silly bugger parking. One of the side effects of the Transit Police Officer checking every person's permit Id on a morning as they arrived to catch a train is that after a few people were caught and more people with bogus permits arrived, they just drove on by. At the end of the monitoring session the permit spaces were left have used. This condition persisted for a few days afterwards. The MTA did assign an officer to just sit in his car during the early morning hours and the results were the same. Half the spaces were unused.

This one was there when I went into
the Supermarket.

This one was there when I came
back out a few minutes later.

The logical conclusion is that at any time from 25 to 50% of the users of designated spaces are posers and liars. One can easily observe the people who use them and see that this is true. Hidden disabilities aside, there are a lot of P&Ls out there and people who are not competent to park much less drive a motor vehicle.

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