Good news / Bad news

The Good news: The NYC Parking Violations Bureau (PVB) now prints out tickets that can be read! No more very unreadable and almost illegible scrawl that would not copy even on the darkest setting of a photocopier! I'm not sure how well they standup in rain, but they include a sturdy pre-addressed bright orange envelope. The Bad news: I just got a $45 ticket at 9:33 AM for parking in an alternate side of the street between 9:30 AM and 11:00 AM on every day BUT Wednesday (Miercoles in Spanish close to "Mierkat: A mongoose-like viverrine of South Africa having a face like a lemur and only four toes") Mon. and Thurs., Tues. and Friday. It used to be from 8 AM until 11 AM. If one could not find a parking space, one was allowed to double-park during that time, though technically illegal, and at 11:01 AM tickets are some times given out for "double parking" though many are during the "restrictions" given on the signage. The fine for that is now $105 !!! Good News: I got a ticket for blocking the street sweeper for $45 and not for double-parking at 11:01 for $105. Isn't that great. Not really. If one makes an honest effort to move the car and double parks, because there are no spaces and they never ticket before 11:00 AM, people should perhaps be given a little leeway. Some businesses claim to have been targeted for the "double parking" fine up on Morris Park Avenue where Regis Philbin is seen from time to time and Spike Lee did a film. I just saw his crew down around William and Exchange in Manhattan, in "Making money Manhattan" and want to give a shout out from the "Boogie down Bronx" to Mount Vernon's Denzel Washington. Finally, Manes and all those PVB scandals can rest in peace, computerized tickets! Rejoined "The Planetary Society" can't you tell?