Will NYC actually enforce the congestion tax?

Take a walk around just about any police precinct. The vast majority of plates are obscured in some way

I'm gonna go with - no, since the enforcers are also violators.

They can't even catch cars parked on my street for months with expired/altered/temp expired tags.. how are they going to catch moving targets?

I'm w/ Steve on this. There's a proposed new rule about obscured license plates, which is effectively nothing, as it's written to apply to parked cars ("No person shall stand or park a vehicle...") - there's no text that makes an obscured plate clearly illegal on a moving vehicle. If the city really cared, the rule would be better written, and the fine would be $500, not $50, and revocation of registration after the 2nd offense. If the city was really interested in really cleaning things up (ha, ha), this would be a fireable offense for anybody who worked for the city.

Show up at the public hearing on 6 Feb if you're interested... (I'll be out of town, unfortunately)

https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2025/new-rules-on-obscured-license-plates.shtml

It is already a violation of the NYS Vehicle and traffic law to drive a vehicle with an obstructed plate. This NYC law simply extends the prohibition to a parked car

If the cops actually cared (they don't), they could simply show up before/after alternate side parking and ticket them. Either they don't move and get a ticket for parking violation, or they move and get ticketed for obscured plate violation.

Sometimes I think they should just put a bounty on traffic tickets or give these cops a 1% kickback on the tickets they write to get the absolute lawlessness under control. Yeah it'll get abused in the other direction, but since COVID the streets have been like mad max.