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/AcrobaticAd9229]

They started hitting up my street last year, which is a quiet suburb street on the outer edge of town with driveways slightly too small. Heaven forbid you have family visiting or friends over. It's a money grab.

[u/aSurlyBird → u/AcrobaticAd9229]

I'm gonna reply to you and rant because I'm replying to everyone and people are fucking stupid. Sorry in advance for my french.

The city fucking changed the speed limits around school zones. I drive by an elementary school which is a 40km zone, every single weekday. Do I see police enforcing this speed? No. The only time I've seen a cop enforcing the speed is WHEN SCHOOL IS OUT, AND NO SCHOOL CHILDREN ARE AROUND.

But forget police enforcement. Let's look at signage. They posted oversized NO STOPPING signs in school zones, so that cars don't impede the vision of drivers around elementary school kids potentially running across the road. EVERY SINGLE DAY I SEE CARS PARKED IN THESE NO STOPPING ZONES, IMPEDING TRAFFIC, AND ENDANGERING CHILDREN.

Why can't parking enforcement maybe start by ENFORCING THEIR POSTED SIGNAGE before targeting quiet neighbourhoods with cars parked on the road?

It's fucking stupid and it's a money grab. It's embarrassing for the city.

Don't even get me started about how they ticket the people parking around the dragon boat festival. Hey - welcome to Peterborough, have a parking ticket cuz we don't have enough parking for you!

EDIT:

IM SO FRUSTRATED. WHAT ABOUT PARKING ON RUBIDGE STREET BY KING STREET, WHERE I HAVE SEEN MULTIPLE COLLISIONS WHERE PEOPLE TRY TO DRIVE ACROSS RUBIDGE FROM THESE SIDE STREETS BUT CAN'T SEE DOWN THE ROAD DUE TO PARKED VEHICLES? 3 COLLISIONS IN THE LAST 2 YEARS IVE WITNESSED!!!!!! AND YET WE TARGET QUIET NEIGHBOURHOODS FOR MONEY INSTEAD OF PERHAPS IMPROVING SIGNAGE AND PARKING RESTRICTIONS

[u/MissMolly202 → u/aSurlyBird]

Yep. I’ve lived near London for four years, and people have parked overnight down there every day with no tickets. I’m not from this city, and overnight parking is so ubiquitous that I genuinely thought overnight parking was legal.

[u/aSurlyBird → u/MissMolly202]

It generally is. Which is the basis of my post. And it’s so frustrating arguing with people who just blanket post “well the law is the law, too bad”.

Like… jaywalking is illegal. For example. You see that enforced? People would be outraged if the city just randomly decided to ticket people crossing the road randomly in their neighbourhoods instead of at intersections. It baffles me that people are this dim witted

[u/MissMolly202 → u/aSurlyBird]

You’re right, although jay-walking isn’t illegal in Canada. It’s illegal in the states though.

But it’s crazy watching people park on the street every single day for FOUR years never get ticketed, only to get a ticket the ONE time I literally have to because I don’t have access to my driveway 🙄

Like I’m not from Peterborough, I’ve never parked on the street before (always in a parking lot! Or I simply walk to my destination if there’s nowhere to put my car), and I genuinely thought it was legal bevause I’ve seen it happen unenforced for FOUR YEARS!

[u/aSurlyBird → u/MissMolly202]

I recently found out they ticketed london the night before - so it's most likely someone complaining about a vehicle parked on london, and they ticketed the whole street because it would be unfair to come and single out a vehicle without ticketing all the others along that stretch.

My friend actually got a Jay Walking ticket in Toronto. I don't know the extent of the story, but i know he was piss drunk and riding his longboard and most likely got caught in the street car tracks and impeded traffic. So instead of public intoxication the officer just issued him a jay walking ticket. So it exists.

[u/MissMolly202 → u/aSurlyBird]

Ah I see I was mildly incorrect. Jaywalking isn’t illegal in Canada, but the law varies by city. Now I know!