Officers from the 79th Precinct attempted to address illegal parking in a bike lane on Bedford Avenue. Despite ticketing some vehicles, they ran out of summonses and left without issuing further citations. When Streetsblog filed 311 complaints, the officers returned but still did not ticket violators. The reason given was that they had already issued many tickets that day and were waiting for more forms. Ultimately, the officers allowed an illegally parked van driver to leave without a ticket after a lengthy wait.
"Officers from the 79th Precinct were busy trying to save cyclists and bust illegal parkers on the newly unprotected stretch of Bedford Avenue, but had to stop issuing summonses because they ran out of them."
"Despite a long history of ignoring 311 calls, the police did respond to our complaints, returning to Bedford, but declining to issue any tickets."
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