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Canarsie’s City Councilman Puts City Councilman Herb Berman, whose district encompasses Canarsie, became a special advoc ate for drivers last week when he intervened — successfully — in a motorists-against-the-city propblem. The problem was that drivers who parked on city streets Monday thought alternate side parking was suspended because of the six-inch snowfall we had during the weekend. They were wrong, however, and the city gave out parking tickets to many of them, most in the Park Slop area. When motorists saw the white and orange tickets on their windshield they asked for intervention from the City Council. And Berman came through. Following a one-day "awareness campaign" staged bythe legislator, it was determined the motorists who recived summonses don’t have to pay the fine after all. The City Councilman’s efforts to stop the unfair ticketinmg took shapewhen he saw more than 25 cars in a two-block area had received tickets. "Where was the common sense?" questioned Berman. "If the Department of Sanitation decides not to suspend alternate-side rules, you would assume they planned to plow the streets. And you would be wrong. I saw snow-covered vehicles with tickets sticking out of doors and poking out of mounds of snow on car hoods." Berman reacted by dashing off letters to Departmnent of Sanitation Commissioner Kevin Farrell and Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik. Late in the afternoon, word came that motorists could send their tickets to the Department of Finance with the explanation they were "confused" and, therefore, the tickets would be voided.
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