Snow, Driving, and Parking in NYC

It is our 16th (or so) snow storm, and the streets are clogged and narrowed by the enormous number of buried cars which remain immobile- they are plowed in and snow covered. The city keeps giving in on alternate side of the street parking regulations, not realizing that the narrowing of the streets by the cars forced to park ever further from the curb makes driving on two way streets worse than crossing one lane bridges in Vermont.

It's clear that the city should force the cars off the streets, at least for enough hours that they can plow to the curb, and then re-allow parking in the cleared spaces. Where to put the snow? Put it in one of the parking spaces on the street itself, as high as necessary, so that the other spots are cleared and the parking is as dense as possible.

Long term, they have to get the cars off the streets when parked. They have to charge for parking on city streets overnight and have to encourage off street parking by encouraging the building of garages, requiring new apartment houses to have an abundance of extra rental space available, and any other tactic that would make the streets free of immobile cars so traffic an flow.