Are parking placards really an issue the teacher's union will make or break with a candidate over? Wouldn't an ambitious plan for lower rents be popular enough to offset that?
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I am super confident that parking placards poll miserably with actual voting New Yorkers, probably even especially drivers, and ending them would be not just good for public health but a political winner
If eliminating placards was such a winning issue they wouldn't exist. It's a classic case of concentrated benefits and diffuse costs making it difficult to eliminate a bad practice.
(This is putting aside whether indicating support for placards is also a soft sign of being unwilling to take on larger structural anti-corruption measures.)
I'm an NYSUT member and I'm anti-parking placard for people that don't need it. "Protecting my turf" at the expense of tangible change is why nothing gets done here.
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