They trashed their chance.<\/p>\n
Prospect Heights drivers proved they are too lazy, greedy and dirty for the privilege of dropping their alternate-side parking rules<\/a> two just two days a week, according to city officials and records.<\/p>\n The leafy Brooklyn nabe miserably failed the eight-week pilot program \u2014 which took ASP parking days from four to two \u2014 with a little more than half its drivers finding the willpower to move their cars for the 1.5-hour inconvenience, officials revealed Thursday.<\/p>\n Prospect Heights drivers failed a pilot program that would half how many days per week they needed to move their cars. Getty Images<\/p>\n Drivers racked up an incredible 913 ASP summonses <\/a>during the pilot, which ran from Aug. 3 through Sept. 25, according to the city\u2019s Sanitation Department.<\/p>\n At an average of 457 tickets per month, Prospect Heights drivers were actually receiving more summonses than they were when alternate-side rules were in effect for double the amount of time.<\/p>\n Just 62% of drivers actually moved their cars for the reduced alternate-side parking days \u2014 dropping from 73% the month before the testing program went into effect.<\/p>\n The result was visibly dirtier streets<\/a>, the DSNY said.<\/p>\n Drivers racked up an incredible 913 ASP summonses during the eight-week pilot. Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/p>\n City Councilmember Crystal Hudson, who pushed for the pilot program, theorizes that drivers fell asleep at the wheel \u2014 with many deciding the cost of a $65 ticket was worth keeping their coveted spot in the notoriously hard-to-park neighborhood.<\/p>\n \u201cFor people who count the tickets as just the cost of owning a car in New York City, maybe they\u2019d rather just get one ticket than two,\u201d Hudson told Gothamist.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201c\u200aThere\u2019s definitely a lot of disappointment. I\u2019m disappointed. I was hoping to have it become a permanent change. But we\u2019ve got to do better.\u201d<\/p>\n Regular ASP rules have resumed in the neighborhood \u2014 meaning drivers are back to enduring four-day street sweeping.<\/p>\n Prospect Heights has twice-weekly alternate side parking on each side of the road. Robert Mecea for NY Post<\/p>\n It also means Prospect Heights drivers have lost their right to whine about the annoying multi-week car dance that comes with the routine.<\/p>\n