Most folks haven't been around LIC long enough to have particularly strong political inclinations. But the congestion pricing stuff of recent discussion actually means a lot for LIC -- it means Long Islanders dodging the driving toll and parking even more daytime cars on our side of the bridges and tunnels.

Enter dealmaking, a plan to require residential parking permits for street parking here in LIC:
So for communities such as Forest Hills, downtown Flushing and Long Island City, this plan and its color-coded decals may give local residents a chance at getting that elusive parking spot, or at least making sure drivers from elsewhere in Queens or Nassau or Suffolk counties cannot take all the spaces in the neighborhood.

Under the program, residents with a permit displayed on their vehicle would be able to park in a residential parking permit-designated space all day. Cars without a permit for a particular zone would not be able to park in RPP spaces during a set 90-minute time period, which is up to the communities to establish. Visitors coming to neighborhoods to shop, use services or conduct business would be restricted from the RPP spaces during the 90-minute period, but could park there at other times of the day.

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