{"id":1188,"date":"2006-06-19T09:38:40","date_gmt":"2006-06-19T17:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/06\/its_good_to_be_king-2.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T11:04:23","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T16:04:23","slug":"its_good_to_be_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/06\/its_good_to_be_1.html","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Good To Be King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Estimates show that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/427861p-360816c.html\">eliminating parking privileges for government employees would generate $46 million in revenue for the city<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Eliminating government employees&#8217; parking perks would generate an estimated $46 million in revenue for the city while helping to reduce traffic congestion, a new study says.<\/p>\n<p>The study, commissioned by Transportation Alternatives, an advocacy group, found government workers are twice as likely to drive to work in Manhattan&#8217;s central business district as workers in the private sector.<\/p>\n<p>According to the study, 19,200 fewer vehicles would enter Manhattan each day if government workers were stripped of their free-parking perks and commuted at the same rate as their private-sector counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>The parking spaces freed up by these vehicles could generate $46 million annually in parking meter fees, the study says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You might think it&#8217;s the stockbroker from Greenwich who drives to work,&#8221; said Bruce Schaller, a transportation consultant who authored the study. &#8220;In fact, they&#8217;re among the least likely people to drive to work. It&#8217;s the government employee with free parking in Manhattan who is most likely to drive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The study found that 47,000 government employees, or 26% of the 177,300 government employees working in Manhattan south of 59th St., drive to work. Two-thirds of these government workers are employees of the City of New York.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Estimates show that eliminating parking privileges for government employees would generate $46 million in revenue for the city: Eliminating government employees&#8217; parking perks would generate an estimated $46 million in revenue for the city while helping to reduce traffic congestion, a new study says. The study, commissioned by Transportation Alternatives, an advocacy group, found government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thats_an_outrage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}