State: NY (Brooklyn)
Today I was in Brooklyn at a client of mine. As i sat idle in front of their building, I was 1 vehicle in front of a "No Standing Bus Lane" sign speaking with someone on my passenger side.
An NYPD Traffic Officer pulled up next to me on the driver's side (making the officer double parked in the roadway). They told me I needed to move out of the bus lane. At that time a bus was coming up behind the officer and the officer pulled in front of me, sideways (making their front passenger tire almost near the curb and their rear sticking into the right most lane a little bit).
The bus was forced to "double park" in the right lane to load/unload passengers now while the office scanned my bar code on my window and proceeded to write me up a ticket as shown:
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The officer's reason on the ticket was listed as No Standing Bus Lane, or something to that "no standing... bus lane" nature.
Can I fight this because I was attempting to following the officers order (when he was double parked) and then unable to do so when the officer blocked me from moving my vehicle.
I thought no standing is for the unloading/loading of passengers while a driver remained in the vehicle with the vehicle running. My argument is that I was unloading a passenger when the officer drove up and then blocked me in, preventing me from leaving.
Today I was in Brooklyn at a client of mine. As i sat idle in front of their building, I was 1 vehicle in front of a "No Standing Bus Lane" sign speaking with someone on my passenger side.
An NYPD Traffic Officer pulled up next to me on the driver's side (making the officer double parked in the roadway). They told me I needed to move out of the bus lane. At that time a bus was coming up behind the officer and the officer pulled in front of me, sideways (making their front passenger tire almost near the curb and their rear sticking into the right most lane a little bit).
The bus was forced to "double park" in the right lane to load/unload passengers now while the office scanned my bar code on my window and proceeded to write me up a ticket as shown:
http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs009.snc1/2872_1078044946768_1095570040_30229373_4689202_n.jpg
The officer's reason on the ticket was listed as No Standing Bus Lane, or something to that "no standing... bus lane" nature.
Can I fight this because I was attempting to following the officers order (when he was double parked) and then unable to do so when the officer blocked me from moving my vehicle.
I thought no standing is for the unloading/loading of passengers while a driver remained in the vehicle with the vehicle running. My argument is that I was unloading a passenger when the officer drove up and then blocked me in, preventing me from leaving.
