- NYC Council report links ghost cars to more unpaid fines and higher traffic violations.
- Nearly a third of surveyed non-NY plate vehicles had fake, mismatched, or missing tags.
- Officials call for more targeted enforcement and towing capacity to tackle the problem.
Across New York City, there is a growing population of so-called ‘ghost cars.’ These vehicles have out-of-state plates, obscured plates, or sometimes no plates at all. According to a city council investigation, they’re responsible for a disproportionate amount of dangerous driving, illegal parking, and unpaid fines.
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Investigators catalogued over 3,500 parked cars across 50 square blocks in NYC. Among them, they found that almost 770 lacked New York plates. Of those, nearly a third had temporary plates, no plates, or plates that weren’t the ones associated with the vehicle itself…