Gentile drives effort to stop T-intersection parking tickets
Says drivers unfairly targeted for summonses
If you’re a motorist who has been slapped with a summons for parking your car at a T-intersection in a mid-block location, Councilmember Vincent Gentile wants you to know that you can fight City Hall and win.
That’s because it’s perfectly legal to park a vehicle at many of these types of intersections, he said.
Thanks to a Department of Transportation (DOT) regulation change in 2009, drivers who park at certain T-intersections are not subject to tickets. A T-intersection can be defined as a three-way junction usually consisting of a long, two-way street meeting a shorter, one-way street.