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How to Make Your Own Free Parking Near the Atlantic Yards Site

11:33 AM EST on January 6, 2012

Via Norman Oder at Atlantic Yards Report, here's a variety of parking scofflaw that we've never come across before on Streetsblog.

In the video, an early morning car commuter, presumably someone working on the nearby Barclays Center arena project, apparently decides that the last parking space on this block of Pacific Street (between Sixth Avenue and Carlton Avenue) is too small to accommodate his SUV, so he makes his own free parking by uprooting a No Standing sign. Oder says the vandalism and flouting of parking regs is symptomatic of the un-monitored violations around the Atlantic Yards construction zone, including trucks double-parking and idling.

This isn't the first time that Atlantic Yards workers have torn out this particular No Standing sign, thereby adding about four or five illegal on-street spaces, according to Atlantic Yards Watch. In fact, the maker of this video predicted that the sign "would be destroyed within one day of installation again," and he was right.

And you thought placards were the ultimate in free parking entitlement.

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