Alternate-Side Stickers - NYTimes.com Re "Sticky Stickers, Cleaner Streets" (editorial, Jan. 21): When you criticized the New York City Council's unanimous decision to abolish the stickers that the Sanitation Department has long used to punish alternate-side parking violators, you endorsed the department's argument that the stickers have led to cleaner streets. This very argument fell flat when the Sanitation Department invented it before the Council's Transportation Committee last fall. Under my questioning, the department could not produce a single statistic demonstrating the stickers" effectiveness as an enforcement tool. I use the term "invented" because in publicly available yearly reports dating to 1999, the department has claimed that cleaner streets are due to coordination among city agencies, cooperation with small businesses, its "strategic approach of assigning personnel and equipment resources to problem areas," and "resolution of quality-of-life issues reported by New Yorkers through 311." Alternate-side stickers were never even mentioned. The writer represents the 44th District in Brooklyn in the New York City Council.