▲ 491 ▼ New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani has collected $9m (£6.6m) in unpaid fines from Amazon, which has been violating clean air regulations by leaving engines running on its parked vehicles (www.nyc.gov) submitted 5 months ago by beep@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 41 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] hayvan@piefed.world 6 points 5 months ago (2 children) That sounds like a great improvement. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months ago (1 child) I’m not so sure. If it’s done to encourage public transportation and biking, and the money generated by parking funds increased non-car infrastructure like bike lanes etc, then sure. But just slapping parking meters on formerly free parking and the money simply going into the city’s general fund (which is what I’m sure is happening here) I wouldn’t call it an improvement. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] hayvan@piefed.world 2 points 5 months ago Agreed, without proper investment, just making parking more expensive doesn't improve anything much. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months ago (1 child) I’m not so sure. If it’s done to encourage public transportation and biking, and the money generated by parking funds increased non-car infrastructure like bike lanes etc, then sure. But just slapping parking meters on formerly free parking and the money simply going into the city’s general fund (which is what I’m sure is happening here) I wouldn’t call it an improvement. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] hayvan@piefed.world 2 points 5 months ago Agreed, without proper investment, just making parking more expensive doesn't improve anything much. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] hayvan@piefed.world 2 points 5 months ago Agreed, without proper investment, just making parking more expensive doesn't improve anything much. permalink fedilink source parent