To the Editor:

Since the change in government in Albany, Roosevelt Island has seen many changes. One very significant one is the loss of the very strict street parking rule enforcement that governed this Island from the late 70's to 1996.

The lax enforcing of rules has now reached the point where residents are virtually unable to find parking to load/unload their vehicles.

This failure of RIOC to enforce longstanding rules designed to benefit the majority of residents might be turned into an advantage for the Island's senior citizens.

An enterprising person could establish a call-in system whereby a resident leaving Motorgate or approaching the Island would call ahead and have a senior citizen meet the car in front of a specific address. The senior citizen would then sit in the double-parked car while the resident unloaded the vehicle.

Fee for the service would be a nominal amount, say $2.00. Should the resident miraculously find a parking spot, and not need the car-sitting service, the resident would pay, say $1.00, to the waiting senior citizen.

Since residents would be pre-registered, any who refused to pay would be canceled and thereafter at the mercy of the current parking conditions.

It would be a boon to seniors to have this source of extra income (though small) and would save drivers the frustration of waiting for someone to pull away, or the risk of a parking ticket from the same agency that refuses to enforce its own rules.

Frustrated Resident

To the Editor:

I discovered that the free transfer between the 63rd Street Lexington Avenue MTA station and the 59th Street Lexington Avenue station has been rescinded due to the halt of the shuttle and reinstatement of the Q line. It may be of service to your readers to publish this information, however late.

Joan Robbins