Don’t forget Westgate.

Could get twice that many on Westgate!

Shouldn’t Skakun be out there rallying for people’s right to park wherever they damn well please? People want to park on the street and the people’s champion should be supporting them.

Personal freedoms aside, the City traditionally hasn’t been enforcing this enough. When these cars are plowed around, it makes a two lane street into a one lane.

Posted on Monday, December 1, 2014 @ 1:43 PM by JohnnyBelt

Personal freedoms aside, the City traditionally hasn’t been enforcing this enough. When these cars are plowed around, it makes a two lane street into a one lane.

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It’s taken the city an awful long time to finally realize that they can make a whack of money by enforcing their own bylaws.

Good to see finally. It won’t take long for people to get the message.
It makes the plow and grader operators’ jobs a lot more difficult to try and plow around parked cars. It hasn’t been enforced, that’s the shame of it.
It will also make the streets safer, in that they will be clear instead of having big piles of unplowed, frozen berms. I’ve seen people do damage to their cars and get stuck in them too. Not good.

Is there any way to know what areas they are plowing in? That would help …

axman: “It’s taken the city an awful long time to finally realize that they can make a whack of money by enforcing their own bylaws.”

The City has typically hated to enforce any bylaw that might lead to a confrontation with somebody. Maybe that’s changed.

Well there will be the typical dumb-asses that park on the street, for them a walk, cab ride and fine is in order. As pointed out endless times over the years, snow removal is a tough job compounded by idiots that don’t get the message. Has it taken the city time to grown the nuts to start enforcing the bylaws? Well yes, but at least they are finally acting like a city instead of a village (complete with enough idiots for several villages). I for one am glad to see them stepping it up a notch or two.

“Is there any way to know what areas they are plowing in? That would help …”

Don’t park during the blackout periods listed above… problem solved.

Enforcing more bylaws is a good revenue generator, I agree. What good are the rules, if no one enforces them.

Hey PG….. it was a question….no need to get snippy

Something Axman and I agree upon. Enforcing these By-laws will generate revenue, a whole new stream of it.

In the summer, The city would make a killing off of water restriction tickets (provided they are paid).

Everyone knew that there were no by-law officers on after 4, so they just turned their sprinklers on whenever they want.

Every street has at least one person parking on the street. My neighbour moved their vehicle off the road right after the grader left. I hope they get a ticket, might get them to grab a clue. Was the same thing last year. One of the downfalls of living on a culdesac is the limited parking and room, one of the good things is limited traffic. Maybe a ticket or two for them and the neighbour will find out when they plow and move his suv, bet the grader loves having to back up a few times to get around him :)

Create an account with e-notify on the City website. Seems to work.

thank you doo… an answer not a buncha baloney

The collective “we” continuously bitch about the way that things are in the City, yet far to many ignore municipal bylaws! Why you might ask? Simple, complete lack of enforcement by the City! The City has finally grown a pair and is starting to clamp down on those that chose to ignore the bylaws! It’s about time!

Clearing the roads takes far less time if the street isn’t full of vehicles parked in contravention of the bylaw. The resulting job is usually completed faster and better if the equipment operators don’t have to deal with the morons who have parked in the way!

I’m glad to see that the City is finally getting the Bylaw Officers out of their offices and out of Timmie’s! Getting some bylaw fines into the revenue stream is just fine with me!

We get streets cleared faster, better and far more cost-effectively! That’s a win-win in my books! Sure, we will have those who will complain if and when they get towed and get a fine, but so what!! We all should know the bylaws by now! Ignorance is no excuse for the law, right??

Professional, very eloquently said.

Don’t know why people think the City has not been writing tickets for cars parked on the streets. I know for a fact that over the years they have, although probably not to the degree that would be necessary to force some change.

In fact, the tow trucks, used to wait downtown until the no parking came into effect in the wee hours of the morning, and then headed to the Cadillac Ranch, and other areas and towed as many cars as they possibly could.

Looks like they are now doing the same thing. There is a difference between towing to allow the City to get the job done, and towing to generate revenue. Lets not get carried away . The plows know what area they are heading into, and that’s the area where the towing should be taking place. If they are not plowing is a particular area, then why tow??

Palopu: You cant have a “kinda sorta” bylaw, that’s what you’re asking for in the tow, no tow, debate. Rules are rules and everyone needs to follow them for the system to work correctly and smoothly. If we all start doing whatever we want, when we want too, then the system breaks down.

Every residence has room for parking the daily driver, you don’t have room for that and all your toys the street is not an option. If the city chooses to enforce a bylaw it’s up to the city, but we need to know if it’s on the street even more so this time of year, chances are good it’s going to be towed.

The danger a parked car poses being out on a street that needs to be cleared out weighs it’s need to be parked on the street. You can’t keep cutting people slack all the time, they need to learn to be responsible for there own actions or in this case in actions.

No one is giving the towing firms cart blanch to tow everything in sight, they are working in order of clearing.

Grizzly2: Thanks

The day begins before 7 am for many people working in the city bowl areas. Where does the city recommend these vehelice park?

I wonder where they are enforcing it.
I have been around town quite a bit and everywhere I go I see vehicles plowed in, but no tickets and obviously not towed away either….

I quess they only pick on seniors and others who can’t protect themselves…
I know at least one runs interference for their non-lawabiding friend…..

Bc racer.. You guess they only pick on seniors.. Well I guess they only pick on people who park on the streets, even though everyone knows the bylaw. If you don’t know the bylaw maybe take a few minutes out of your day to log on to the city’s website and find out about it before you are fined. My dad is a senior, he parks off the street, but according to you the bylaw officers are stalking him, waiting for him to park in the street before they pounce and fine his butt. Lol

Bc racer.. Here is the kicker.. My dad was in a fender bender tonight.. A bylaw officer ran into,the back of him at a red light..

Posted on Monday, December 1, 2014 @ 7:14 PM by Walter199

The day begins before 7 am for many people working in the city bowl areas. Where does the city recommend these vehelice park?

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Anywhere but on the street. Most on street parking is not designed for people to park at for the entire day.

I quess they only pick on seniors and others who can’t protect themselves…

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How on earth does the bylaw officer know the age of the person who parked the car? And, is the some reason (in your world) that seniors cannot park in their driveways?

The day begins before 7 am for many people working in the city bowl areas. Where does the city recommend these vehelice park?

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Anywhere but on the street. Most on street parking is not designed for people to park at for the entire day.

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I was gonna say. In a parkade, or parking lot, WHERE YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO!

No parking between 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. in residential areas. How does that help when the plows come along at midnight? Maybe the city will have to review when they plow, and then enforce the parking restrictions. It used to be, that residential streets were cleared during the day, when people were at work. For the past 3-5 years my street has always been plowed between midnight and 2 am. Same as last night.
I am very happy that my street has been cleared, and I want to express a big thanks for the quick action,