Parking and Traffic The report also accused city officials of making no attempt to control parking and traffic through the congested market on South Street, between John Street on the south and Dover Street on the north.

Same bizarre arrangements involving agents and private 'investors' in teenagers, similar violence and unjustified influence of organised fan groups, even the same story of the bloodsuckers that control parking around the venues (the infamous 'flanelinhas').

It will be the city's first attempt - and the first of its kind in the country, experts say - to use an economic idea called congestion pricing to control commercial parking by varying the rates depending on the time of day.

For the last 50 years, Mr. Strassberg said, the village has paid the L.I.R.R. $1 a year for the right to control parking and receive money from parking meters on the village-owned property.

In the Netherlands, the general problem of residential habitats despoiled and endangered by speeding traffic and parked vehicles is well known, as are the general solutions of preventing through traffic, reducing traffic speeds and controlling parking.

To critics of the Long Island Rail Road - as well as of the towns that control parking - the problems represented another instance of a lack of understanding of commuters' needs and a lack of appreciation for what the commuter brings to the local economy.

To the Editor: It is a shame the New York Police Department's new commitment to control reckless parking (news article, April 19) does not affect those who regularly ignore parking rules: police officers themselves.