Parking scofflaws are about to lose a precious perk.
The city Department of Finance is axing a program that offers reduced parking-ticket fines for motorists who agree not to fight their summons in court, The Post has learned.
Finance Commissioner David Frankel said scrapping the program as of Jan. 30 could save the city roughly $50 million a year.
“When I think about city services and revenue, this is not a place where the city should be losing another $50 million or so,” Frankel told The Post. “This is one of those places where we just don’t think that $50 million in lost revenue is worth what that means to other services in the city.”
Instituted in 2007 as a way to reduce a backlog of unpaid tickets, the program allows Manhattan parking violators to pay $43 instead of $65 for alternate-side and expired-meter fines if they don’t appeal.
Outerborough motorists pay $32 instead of $45 for the same infractions if they don’t fight the ticket.
Under the program, double-parking fees are reduced citywide to $90 from $115.
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Here we go again. Next they’ll announce a ticket blitz and then we’ll hear the Mayor (& some YWN commentators) pontificating “if you do the crime pay the fine”