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RE: Boulevard Parking (Kitchener) - Spokes - 01-09-2019
By-laws have as much teeth as their enforcement. And here, that's very little
RE: Boulevard Parking (Kitchener) - Canard - 01-09-2019
I've been actually quite surprised recently - before when I used Pingstreet to report parking violations on my street a couple of times a week, there was never any feedback. Now, I get an email every time (usually 2-4 hours later....) that a ticket has been opened and Bylaw has been dispatched - often too late - but still, now it proves that someone is actually doing "Something" (it's a hand-typed email every time).
Saw this one on the weekend:
RE: Boulevard Parking (Kitchener) - danbrotherston - 01-09-2019
Lol, are they like...trolling pedestrians?
From my house, I can frequently see vehicles parked blocking the sidewalk, I call them in all the time, and I have never once seen a bylaw officer ticket them.
As far as I can tell, the only bylaw enforcement is ticketing for over time parking...that they have a whole vehicle for, that I see all the time...and it's the least problematic offense, basically theft of public value...given our parking tickets are only 20-25 dollars, one questions why the tickets are so low (all day parking is like 10 dollars).
RE: Boulevard Parking (Kitchener) - Canard - 01-09-2019
Are you getting the manually-typed emails saying an officer has been sent, when you use the Pingstreet App?
RE: Boulevard Parking (Kitchener) - MidTowner - 01-10-2019
(01-09-2019, 08:36 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: Lol, are they like...trolling pedestrians?
From my house, I can frequently see vehicles parked blocking the sidewalk, I call them in all the time, and I have never once seen a bylaw officer ticket them.
As far as I can tell, the only bylaw enforcement is ticketing for over time parking...that they have a whole vehicle for, that I see all the time...and it's the least problematic offense, basically theft of public value...given our parking tickets are only 20-25 dollars, one questions why the tickets are so low (all day parking is like 10 dollars).
I can attest that bylaw has issued a ticket for blocking a sidewalk based on my calls on at least a couple occasions. But even I only call occasionally; it's a common problem, cars on sidewalks.