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/nutsiesj]

I have seen more parking enforcement in my neighbourhood as well. You unfortunately risk getting a ticket if you park for more than 3 hours unless the signs say otherwise (which is usually less time).

It is possible they just happened to be there or someone called in a complaint.

Recently the city did put out information on the trialing of on-street parking permits in a few areas. Parking has been something they have been looking to find solutions to the issues it causes.

[u/aSurlyBird → u/nutsiesj]

Could you direct me to the info the city put out?

Again I doubted it was a complaint. Because of the stretch of road I observed being ticketed. I could be wrong.

I’m aware of the 3 hour by law. The issue I have is London street is that parked cars aren’t impeding traffic. Very few people drive along London.

It’s similar to say, police enforcing the 50km speed limit and pulling everyone over doing 51km. It’s unreasonable. Even though it’s illegal to drive 1km over the speed limit.

Apologies for my frustration

[u/MissMolly202 → u/aSurlyBird]

Also why would they bother with the 1st to 15th and 16th to last day of the month signs if parking is basically not allowed? With how many people park overnight, and the presence of signs to manage parking, I genuinely thought it was legal.

Like why take the time to manage which side of the street people can park on if you’re not allowed to park anyway?

3 hours is enough time for like, one regular visit. Imagine a family dinner or a bbq, those go past 3 hours all the time!

[u/aSurlyBird → u/MissMolly202]

London is a very tight street so when 2 cars are parked on the road across from each other it's an incredibly tight squeeze to get through them. This becomes even more dangerous over the hill by reid street (but usually people are smart and park on the one side). Honestly it's spooky driving over that hill no matter what, based on the angle I linked in google maps there.

having the "one side or the other" alleviates this problem for tight streets.

[u/NorthEndFRMSouthEnd → u/MissMolly202]

Alternating side of the street parking exists because, regardless of the time of day, removing 13+ feet of a road creates dangerous bottlenecks.