If parking is such a problem in front of the clinic (1435 86th Street, if you’re wondering), why don’t the patients ask the clinic to operate a shuttle bus?

(the real injustice is that the curb is so saturated that people are so often _forced_ to double park. the solution, of course, is to set the price of curbside parking at a rate that yields some vacancy.)

Exactly. Higher parking charges cost commuters who use “free” parking all day or feed cheap meters, but benefit people like this.

Couple Double-Parks for Wife’s Dialysis, Gets $115 Ticket

Let’s suspend overt compassion here for a moment… and play devil’s advocate.

So, it is still illegal to double park then, right?

Then why is the Daily News painting us such a sob story? (This is a rhetorical question of course, Daily News is tabloid trash)

Let’s hope the ambulance she’s in is never blocked in by a double parker in case of a REAL emergency.

And forgive me, but — god help them if they ever get stuck in traffic, those precious few minutes could kill her! (Not really)

They can’t afford a cab? Putting around in a car in Bay Ridge, I doubt it. If she’s blind and needs regular medical treatments she probably qualifies for Access-A-Ride.

Well, I hope their ticket is dismissed. But this certainly can’t be the first time this has happened, what are they going to do to fix it? Back to your regularly scheduled programming.

Breaking news, the Iannicellis’ ticket was upheld by the judge. Get with Councilman Gentile to contribute to their defense fund.