De Blasio’s Promise to Cut Unnecessary Tickets Falling Short
Records show that New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s promise to dramatically cut the number of unnecessary tickets given out to New Yorkers is falling a bit short, and that the total number of summonses issued over the first five months of 2014 is up from 2013.
The New York Post reports that 237,641 tickets were written during the first five months of de Blasio’s tenure by the seven agencies operating under the city’s Environmental Control Board (ECB), including the Sanitation Dept., as opposed to 197,278 during the same period in 2013.
While campaigning last year, de Blasio often ripped former mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration for over-ticketing New Yorkers, and pledged reform upon taking office.
“The thing that we’re focused on immediately is ending the arbitrary ticket blitzes that were revenue-based,” de Blasio said in February.
Records, however, reveal that the opposite is true, with $67M in revenue collected by the ECB from January to June of 2014 as opposed to $66M during the same period last year.
City officials pointed to an unusually long winter and more snow as a major reason for the increase, but records show that the Sanitation Dept.‘s ticket numbers for April and May of 2014 still exceed the number of tickets written for the same months in 2011 and 2012.
WHO'S SURPRISED?
WHO’S SURPRISED? ONLY THOSE WHO SHOULDN’T HAVE VOTED IN THE FIRST PLACE!
Seriously?
You mean the communist De Blasio is a liar!? REALLY??? Who would’ve known?
Only warming up!
De Blasio just got started. Fasten your seat belt for a long ride…no pun intended.
"Good old days" - relatively at least
I hope we won’t one day wish for the days of Michael Bloomberg (the lesser of the 2 evils, by far in fact).
declasse' intellectual
why should the ticket writing stop. it is a cash cow to fund the mayor’s left wing agenda