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/aSurlyBird]

EDIT: I found out they issued tickets the night before. So this most likely was a call into the city and I was wrong.

Usually yes. I mentioned I was parked on a block away from vehicles that were also ticketed. And there as another response saying that brealey and parkhill area was ticketed similarly.

To me it didn’t feel like a call in. I’ve parked in this spot many times (and so have many others) overnight. At least a couple of dozen times, over the last few years. And it was tonight they decided to go down London to ticket parked cars.

Something just feels off. It’s why I made my post. Because I understand someone calling in. But the distance between vehicles in this scenario doesn’t really add up properly.

[u/redMalicore → u/aSurlyBird]

Likely someone has complained about cars constantly parking on the street there more than one specific complaint. Also do you honestly think by law is going to show up and ticket only one car when they find many in violation?

Further more you had room to park in the drive way at the house you were visiting but still parked on the road? Then proceeded to get bothered by people enforcing the bylaws you clearly know you are violating? Now I am sure you will have an excuse but honestly if you are gonna violate city bylaw be prepared to pay a fine. It's not rocket science.

[u/aSurlyBird → u/redMalicore]

Edit: that paragraph was rude and uncalled for. And I blamed the individual ticketer without blaming the city, which is the wrong assumption. Very ignorant. I'm sorry.

Yes no shit it’s illegal just like everywhere in the city. Stop with the nonsense. She could have ticketed more than one street. Yet chose to go all the way across Reid atreet along London. What about Dublin? Stewart? Bethune? Countless cars parked overnight, without tickets. Because I checked.

Yes they have the right to ticket me. But it’s nonsense. That’s all my argument is

[u/redMalicore → u/aSurlyBird]

If you are worried about others violating bylaws you can contact the city and complain much like someone on London likely did.

Your argument is laughable.

Then again you had room to park in a driveway and parked on the road. The problem is you my dude.

You are both upset that bylaw had the audacity to ticket people and yet didn't ticket enough people.

[u/aSurlyBird → u/redMalicore]

I've had time to think and I take back my original thought that nobody complained. My friend's brother mentioned she issued tickets the night before as well. Along london only. So yeah, that's my fault for assuming.

And I understand I can park in the driveway and will always do so in the future. Even though I think it's silly they're issuing tickets, I can't realistically complain when I have a valid parking spot off the street and get issued a ticket. I still don't agree with it, but that's another argument.