NYC Ticket Blitz as 200 Traffic Agents Added, Watch Out

According to WCBS TV in New York City, more traffic tickets being written. It has to do with the city getting more money. Sticking to New Yorkers by any means necessary. Well, brace yourselves, the city is putting 200 more ticket-writing traffic agents to work.

I guess you may not be able to avoid a cop, no matter how hard you try. You are a walking target. 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. Source: WCBS TV

The city thinks it can raise $66 million this way. Of course, I am not suggesting that they are wrong to crack done on traffic violations, but it is very suspect that it comes now, during the economically challenging times we are now faced with. As I recall from living in New York City for many years, the traffic agents were a pesky bunch and I guess, they will become an even peskier bunch now that more are being deployed on the streets. I guess the idea may catch on in other metropolitan areas. Folks, watch out. Do the right thing and you won't get screwed with traffic tickets.