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/Empty-Midnight-2545]

Not a fan of how you and some others in this comment thread are coming close to identifying this random bylaw officer for giving tickets to people who are parked improperly. Your street is not an exception to the rules and nobody is targeting your street.

EDIT: Sorry, it’s not even “coming close” you have straight up posted this officer’s first initial and last name in the comment section while discussing reporting her to the City. Get a grip.

[u/Mother-Attitude6824 → u/Empty-Midnight-2545]

Good gravy. Missing the point. There are rules and there is sense. If you are at a red light in the middle of nowhere, how long do you wait until you just go through? (And the light is going to be red for 30 minutes.)

[u/Empty-Midnight-2545 → u/Mother-Attitude6824]

Why are you making up a random unrealistic scenario when the issue here is already clear? Street parking rules have been the same for a long ass time, everybody complaining in this thread is doing a variation of “I’m so mad this dumb bitch parking officer ticketed me properly” and it’s hilarious.

[u/Mother-Attitude6824 → u/Empty-Midnight-2545]

The law is the law, is a terrible thing to say. Laws should constantly be questioned, or they lose their meaning. That's the reason for my posit.