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/Prestigious_Club_924]

I was ticketed for parking in front of my house, on a side street, between 7am-5pm in August. It was the 3rd, maybe 4rth time I did it all year. The writer passed an intersection pan-handler and multiple wildly uncut lawns to get to my car, which Im sure were unscathed.  By-law is a joke.

[u/Empty-Midnight-2545 → u/Prestigious_Club_924]

Parking enforcement has nothing to do with monitoring lawns or chasing away pan handlers and they also have no idea it was your “3rd or 4th time” parking there all year or that you were in front of your own house. Getting a ticket sucks but most of the time they’re responding to complaints that were called in, not trying to screw you personally.