Comments on: NYC Council Strengthens Anti-Idling Enforcement

By: Lawrence Frank

Lawrence Frank — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:14:19 +0000

500 idling summonses in an entire year!? I could issue that many in a month without breaking a sweat. Why is the city not seriously addressing this enormous problem? The city is short on cash. This would be a great revenue generator until people get smart and stop idling.

Even better would be tax incentives for retrofitting conventional vehicles to turn off when stopped, especially in a city where many thousands of cars spend significant amounts of time at stop lights.

By: DEP Watch Dog

DEP Watch Dog — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:49:59 +0000

Check out what NYC really thinks about Environmental Law Enforcement.

http://www.depwatchdog.blogspot.com

By: John Dolan

John Dolan — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 01:49:57 +0000

My new 2008 diesel trucks require manual regeneration.
This process requires a truck driver to stop and run the truck in neatral util the truck regenerates.Trucks that operate in the inner city and have alot of stop and go have to follow this procedure or the truck will not go above 20 miles per hour.Manual regneration takes 10 to 30 minutes. Enviromental police just issued my truck a ticket for ideling for 5 minutes. The 2008 trucks are now
burning cleaner but the city has not yet recognized that these trucks require this procedure.Trucks that go on the highway do the regneration on its own becaise the truck can reach a high enough temp.

By: ddartley

ddartley — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:40:10 +0000

There is another, arguably more important anti-idling bill which deserves everyone's support: Int 881-2008. Idling is one of those offenses about which people fret "there won't be any enforcement." Well, Int 881 addresses that in a very effective way, and is, I think, a linchpin in the goal of finally stopping the useless, constant spewing of poison into our air. It enables Traffic Enforcement Agents ("parking agents"), using their handheld ticket-writing computers, to issue idling summonses. Ask any NYC motorist: traffic agents are extremely--seemingly magically--reliable at issuing summonses. That is in contrast with patrol cops who generally don't issues summonses for things like idling, and with DEP inspectors who are, when it comes to ticketing the thousands of vehicles that idle each day, impossibly scarce. Also, remember that idling is implicated in four deaths in this January alone: two toddlers in Chinatown and two young men in Queens. Surely idling rarely causes such immediate deaths, but these four people wouldn't be dead without it. Why allow that risk? What good does idling do to warrant that risk? Demand fast action on Int 881-2008.

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Streetsblog » Today’s Headlines — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:53:42 +0000

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