You may have begun to notice more traffic tickets being written. And you may have guessed -- correctly -- that it has to do with getting New York City more money. Well, brace yourselves, the city is putting 200 more ticket-writing traffic agents to work.
The city's latest move to close the budget gap is annoying New Yorkers to no end. Soon, you may not be able to avoid the police no matter what you do. Approximately 100 of the agents will be in Manhattan; the other 100 will be spread out across the other boroughs.
NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly laid out the plan on Tuesday.
"[We will put them] in Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens. We will not deploy them right now in Staten Island," Kelly said.
The agents will be looking primarily for drivers who "block the box" at intersections. That ticket will cost $115.
The city thinks it can raise an extra $66 million this way.
Meanwhile, the NY Post reports that the NYPD says it can't afford to hire 1,067 extra cops.
(Sources: WCBSTV / NY Post)
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