Violations tagged as dot were caught parked in a bike lanes in New York 7 times
Showing violations tagged: dot (clear)
DOT: greed is bad
75 prince st, New york, NY
Just after the rain started pouring down, I saw this city employee zoomed through the Prince Street bike lane to the red light at Broadway, thus blocking a European woman of a certain age behind him from proceeding. I told her he had a DOT placard in his front window, and she should curse him out for his piggish driving habits. And curse him out she did, as you can see from the photo! Although Prince Street is narrow, the bike lane is well-marked; certainly a DOT employee ought to be worthy of the city vehicle he drives at taxpayer expense and not pull nonsense like this. He couldn't wait for two additional seconds behind the FedEx truck?
DOT also parks in Fourth Ave bike lane
120 fourth ave, New york, NY
Look at all that beautiful unused open curb space.
Behold the promised land
184 ninth ave, New york, NY
Let us all now praise DOT, whose workers are busy laboring in the rain this morning to finish the buffered bike lane on lower Ninth Avenue as seen here at 8:45 am. Remember to send an email thanking our visionary Transportation Commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan, for making this happen:
http://nyc.gov/html/mail/html/maildot.html
DOT TRUCK
5th Ave and 23rd, Ny, NY
DOT "Special Events" truck parked in the 5th ave lane. There wasn't even anybody in the car.
DoT Candy Store Run
Eighth Avenue and West 53rd Street, New york, NY
This DOT placard holder figures that he can double park in the bike lane across from the hydrant without risking a ticket for blocking the hydrant. He doesn't double-park next to one of the legally parked cars, because that might block in and inconvenience a fellow motorist (can't do that!). So he parks in the bike lane, apparently comfortable with inconveniencing and endangering bicyclists. He waddled out of the candy shop as I was photo'ing his placard. When I questioned his parking he argued in defense that he was not abusing his placard, because the placard does not entitle him to park where he was (thanks for the admission!). So why is it on your dash, buddy--don't you see the fine print at the bottom stating it is a "felony" to misuse the permit?
