Outremont to charge for all parking
Outremont is about to announce that it will charge for all street parking. It’s an idea Luc Ferrandez also had for his borough, but hadn’t carried out before he stepped down.
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walkerp 11:54 on 2019-05-30 Permalink
Great news. Golf clap. Will be interesting to see the media response. I guess there is less shopping in Outremont than in the Plateau, so may not get the same outcry. Ironic, that Ferrandez would have been pilloried for this, though and Outremont just slides in with this.
jeather 12:40 on 2019-05-30 Permalink
There will be 2h free parking for visitors, all residents will need a vignette, I don’t think they’re adding more meters yet. So not unlike Westmount.
Joey 13:28 on 2019-05-30 Permalink
Talk about burying the lede. From La Presse:
Dans certaines rues, le stationnement sera permis des deux côtés toute la semaine, ce qui permet d’ajouter 400 espaces.
Ces changements seront implantés graduellement entre août et octobre prochains.
Des citoyens se plaignent que des automobilistes de l’extérieur viennent se stationner dans les rues d’Outremont, dans des espaces gratuits, pour ensuite prendre les transports en commun pour se rendre au travail, indique Philippe Tomlinson. Ils pourront continuer de le faire en achetant une vignette.
So they are (a) increasing the overall parking footprint and (b) cashing in on some parking nimbyism. Nice greenwashing too!
Kate 15:46 on 2019-05-30 Permalink
Joey, I thought that normally you can only get a parking vignette for the zone you live in.
Joey 17:15 on 2019-05-30 Permalink
That’s how it is in the City of Montreal – not sure about Outremont.
Kate 17:21 on 2019-05-30 Permalink
Outremont’s a borough of Montreal, though. Used to be a separate town but hasn’t been for awhile.
Chris 19:55 on 2019-05-30 Permalink
In Plateau, not only do you have to live in the zone (and it has to be your primary address, mere ownership of a property is insufficient) but you have to own the car too. Though now they have Park au Jour at least.
Adding 400 places. Sigh. We should be removing parking.
qatzelok 20:49 on 2019-05-30 Permalink
Adding parking just as the city will be removing capacity from major arteries like St-Denis? I guess the MTQ will have to add an elevated deck to Parc Avenue to carry all the new cars. “Welcome to Outremont, St-Denis car-parkers!”
Ian 14:17 on 2019-05-31 Permalink
Nobody is going to drive to Outremont to walk all the way to Saint-Denis, especially as the main shopping strip of Saint-Denis is south of Mont-Royal. I guess you could try to find parking in that narrow band of Outremont west of Hutchison, South of Saint Joseph – but good luck. It’s still a half an hour walk.
@Chris you’ve always been able to buy temporary parking permits, which is pretty handy for out of town guests. Personally as a Mile End resident I’d like to see these Outremont rules applied here too, it’s a slap in the face that residents have to pay for street parking and literally half the street is taken up by vehicles with plates from NY, MA, NJ, ON, (etc). Take into consideration entire streets are blocked off for ongoing multiyear construction and that most people don’t have private parking spots. I often have to circle around for a good 45 minutes just to find a place to leave my car on street-cleaning days.
I get it, private combustion powered vehicles are evil and dumb and the worst thing ever – but for those of us who actually have to work in far-away areas poorly served by transit it’s a necessity. I also get that most people with their own vehicles don’t actually work in far-away areas poorly served by transit… but as long as resident parking is a thing, it should be geared toward supporting residents. I’d love to see assigned parking spots with electric car recharging ports, too. I drive a very old used hatchback because I don’t like supporting making new cars and fuel efficiency is important to me – but I would have bought an electric car for sure if there was anywhere to hook it up, and we aren’t allowed to park in the alleys – except mysteriously if you are a construction vehicle then you can do whatever the hell you want.
Chris 19:41 on 2019-05-31 Permalink
Ian, perhaps we are talking about different things, or you have a special definition of “always”, but visitor parking permits are only a couple of years old in the Plateau, ex: https://journalmetro.com/local/le-plateau-mont-royal/1440290/les-vignettes-journalieres-etendues-a-lensemble-du-plateau-mont-royal/
Yes, private combustion powered vehicles are evil and dumb and the very least we should do is charge cost+ rates for parking them on public property. Instead, we subsidize and encourage them by providing ample free parking (or nearly free, yearly resident vignette is like $200).
Ian 16:22 on 2019-06-03 Permalink
As usual your reactionary sensibilities makes even the broadest sarcasm fall flat. Thanks for rising to the occasion. Until there is reserved street parking those neighbourhoods without driveways essentially can’t go electric. It’s attitudes like yours (all cars are bad so screw ’em) that effectively prevents that much-needed transition.