NYC drivers would lose roughly 300,000 parking spots and taxpayers would be in the hole for $3 billion under a bill being fast-tracked by far-left City Council members.
The NYC Council’s Progressive Caucus announced this week that it plans to push the full Council to approve legislation by year’s end requiring the city to remove all parking spaces located within 20 feet of crosswalks — and replace them with bike racks, bollards and other structures that block vehicles.
Proponents of the so-called “Universal Daylighting” bill, introduced in December by Councilwoman Julie Won (D-Queens), say it would increase road visibility at intersections, cut down on traffic-related deaths and put the city in compliance with an existing state law banning parking within 20 feet of intersections that the Big Apple has long been exempted from.
“This bill will make our streets exponentially safer for all: drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists,” said Won, a caucus member whose district includes parking-challenged Long Island City…