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Kate 21:01 on 2019-05-07 Permalink Reply  

• Blork 21:16 on 2019-05-07 Permalink

  Big thumbs-up from this corner.

  Also: any opportunity to show this photo (although it is 30 years old…):
  https://www.flickr.com/photos/blork/32466743762/in/dateposted-public/

• Chris 10:45 on 2019-05-08 Permalink

  They were parking there like that even 5-10 years ago! I think they’ve finally stopped.

• Ian 11:31 on 2019-05-08 Permalink

  I’d love to see a crackdown on business vehicles -most of the bike lane parking in my area is construction, and I know they get some permits for spots but that doesn’t mean double parking and the vast majority of them don’t have permits and never, ever get tickets. I’d also like to see a crackdown on alley parking for similar reasons. The “business driving” agreement the cops seem to have is very openly abused.

• Tim S. 11:41 on 2019-05-08 Permalink

  They also park in bus stops and on sidewalks. But that’s partly on the city for not organizing designated parking for delivery vehicles. I think Ephraim has proposed various schemes, but basically a couple of spots per block available for 15 min slots should do it. And construction crews need to learn to unload stuff quickly and then walk from a legal parking spot, like everyone else.

• Blork 13:42 on 2019-05-08 Permalink

  Speaking of bike lanes, does anyone here know what’s going on with the de Maisonneuve lane around McGill College? I rode through there this morning and it was chaos. There was a bicycle detour sign at either Aylmer or City Councillors pointing north, and it was universally ignored by 100% of cyclists. At Robert-Bourassa the bike lane disappeared and again 100% of cyclists chose NOT to go north to Prez Kennedy, instead choosing to wrangle themselves in with the single lane of car traffic running from R-Bourassa to half a block past McGill-College.

  It was terrible! Partly the fault of the cyclists, but mostly the fault of not providing a viable detour. A “viable detour” is one that appears to make sense and doesn’t just send you randomly flying off in all directions.

  Cars don’t have much choice when they encounter a “detour” sign, but cyclists do. Or at least they think they do. In my experience, cyclists will only obey a detour sign if (a) the direction they want to go is utterly blocked and impassible, and (b) the detour includes a map that shows them where the detour goes.

• Ian 18:39 on 2019-05-08 Permalink

  I think everyone would like a map showing where the detour goes, really.

• Ephraim 19:31 on 2019-05-08 Permalink

  Ian, until the day that temporary “no parking” signs have to post a permit number… and that permit number is available online, there will be no respite from the problem. One day they put up no parking signs on both sides of my street for half the street. I had to wade through 3 phone calls with the city to finally get someone who could check the permit and find out that they had a permit for 3 spots on one side of the street… they figured that no one was going to check…. and they are right, it’s too difficult. Make it transparent, so any citizen can see if your no parking signs are legal and if they aren’t… where to call to get them fined or the signs seized. Being that most of the time they are renting those signs… having them seized can be costly.

• Ian 21:16 on 2019-05-08 Permalink

  When they did that on my street last fall, after finding out there were no permits, I chucked all their no parking signs into a site up the street’s dumpster.