Whether you drive or not, you’re paying the cost for the lawbreaking. In 2008 a study by the city Department of Transportation found that in the area near City Hall, “nearly one in eight permitted vehicles were illegally parked at a bus stop, crosswalk, fire hydrant, driveway or were double-parked.” An estimated 9% of all placards used in the area were deemed “ inauthentic or illegitimate in some way,” and they took up 22% of the spaces trucks needed to make deliveries.