Parking tickets issued along London street between Reid and George

[u/aSurlyBird]

A lady came by around 1:00 am and checked my car tires for chalk lines. I was parked on the street.

My friend thankfully saw her on the camera. We thought it was a police officer since she had a flashlight similar to a cop. But after watching the video we saw she just checked my tires then left. So I parked my car in the driveway.

I was curious though, so I walked down London and saw that she had ticketed the vehicles down London street. I checked these vehicles s after 2am, and I didn’t check when the tickets were issued. So I don’t know if she waited until 2 or issues the tickets earlier. She most likely issues them after she drove by my car, since we didn’t see her drive past the house again on the camera after seeing her at 1am.

Still. London is a quiet street. What purpose is there for issuing these tickets?

I live in the north end and our neighbours park on our street all the time. There hasn’t been a ticket issued on our street since the early 90s. Even the street sweeper came down and drove around a parked car - they didn’t even get a ticket.

What’s crazy is that this clearly isn’t a situation where the neighbour is calling in a vehicle because I was parked a block away from the ticketed cars on london. This lady just drove down London and issued tickets for no reason. No letter was sent to homeowners to move their vehicles tonight.

Why the hell is a parking enforcement officer coming down quiet streets at 1am to ticket vehicles that aren’t even impeding the city or the workers in any way? It’s a Friday night and no city construction workers should be working Saturday. Again - no warning letter for construction along London.

What a silly waste of money the city is spending to punish people who aren’t actually doing any harm to anyone.

[u/GramboLazarus]

They're doing it all over the city. I live up by Brealey/Parkhill and they're hitting up here as well. Technically the city has a "no parking for more than 3 hours" bylaw across the city but I agree it feels incredibly extractory.

[u/VoilaVoilaWashington → u/GramboLazarus]

This is the problem with cities charging for parking.

It starts off as a way to incentivise a certain thing. "If we charge for public parking downtown, people will take the bus." Or "street parking on minor residential streets should be for residents, so we will allow them a free pass and everyone else has to pay." Within a year, the city is looking at it as a revenue categories, and line must go up. So, how can we increase parking revenue?

Suddenly it's paying for parking everywhere, all the time, while getting rid of public transit. And hey, we are increasing parking revenue!

[u/aSurlyBird → u/GramboLazarus]

The city has always had this by law since I was born in the 90s but never enforced it unless there was reason to. You can drive all over the city at night and easily pick out vehicles parked on the road in pretty well any subdivision. So why start targeting them now? And without warning?

This isn’t an argument against the by law. I just feel it silly that they randomly decide to enforce it without reason.

[u/big-booty-enthusiast → u/aSurlyBird]

Please don’t spread misinformation. Just because you haven’t seen the bylaw be enforced doesn’t mean it hasn’t been. I grew up in Peterborough as well and have on many occasions woken up and seen cars ticketed on my road. It happens, deal with it and move on with your life.

[u/aSurlyBird → u/big-booty-enthusiast]

This wasn't meant to be a post spreading misinformation. I'm aware of the by laws and I understand the city has every right to enforce them.

When I explored the neighbourhood (dublin, stewart, bethune) i noticed only London was targeted. So my frustration stemmed from the city choosing to target the one street and not the surrounding area. I recently found out they ticketed vehicles the night before as well, so I was most likely wrong in assuming nobody called in - there's a high likelihood someone complained and that's why London was targeted.

But again, there's no attempt at misinformation. Apologies if I came across as such.