Well, It’s A Start . . .

New United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is driven eight blocks even as he encourages U.N. diplomats to use mass transit:

Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who made his public debut at a breakfast with business leaders yesterday, won applause when he urged diplomats to do “as Mayor Bloomberg does” and take the subway.

But Ban himself was driven the mere eight blocks from his East Side hotel to the breakfast at the Grand Hyatt in midtown — and his driver parked the Mercedes illegally in a clearly flagged “No Standing” zone outside.

“You say ‘illegally parked,’ but I’d say ‘illegally stopped,'” Ban’s spokeswoman, Choi Soung-ah, told the Daily News.

“He did take the car to work,” Choi said. “But he has a driver in it at all times, so it’s not abandoned on the street. When it needs to be moved, they move it.”