With the future in mind, a small group of my peers made it our mission to bring awareness to the absurdity of idling in New York City. Being in a class entitled, Urban Economics, we followed the hearing of the Anti-Idling Bill Initiative 717, that would grant citizens half of the money procured from fines given to idlers. This bill not only incentives ordinary people to be aware of the environmental issues in their neighborhoods, but to also feel as if they can do something about it. Our goal was to reinforce the idea that the Department of Environmental Protection was not doing enough to enforce idling laws, and in turn were foregoing huge amounts of revenue. To prove this point, I went around the city filing reports of air complaints to the
