City has lost 4280 parking spaces
The city has lost 4,280 parking spaces during the Plante administration, but that’s still fewer than 1% of the parking spots in town. There’s more detail: 2,844 have been lost to bike paths, and others have gone away for safety reasons like being too close to intersections or to school environs.
david132 02:55 on 2020-11-17 Permalink
“288 places tarifées ont été retirées pour faire place à des projets de pistes cyclables . . . Le dégagement des intersections a pour sa part entraîné la disparition de 318 places tarifées. Et 208 places de stationnement, tarifées ou non, ont été supprimées pour la réalisation de projets de piétonnisation et de voies partagées.”
Such a miniscule number of paid (ie. the highest demand) parking spaces have been withdrawn that this probably shouldn’t even be an article, and certainly not one in the Devoir, unless the point is to directly rebut another, more misleading article.
Ephraim 09:33 on 2020-11-17 Permalink
What I don’t see… how many handicapped spots have been lost, added or replaced? These spaces are a lot more vital.
qatzelok 10:30 on 2020-11-17 Permalink
Call me a pollyanna, but I like to focus on the postiive: on how many cyclists are not being put into wheelchairs – or memorialized with ghost bikes – due to having have safer bike infrastructure.
qatzelok 10:33 on 2020-11-17 Permalink
Also, when you were younger, did your mother or social studies teacher teach you that you would always have a free place to put a car? Is that in the constitution? Is it good economics?
Kate 11:23 on 2020-11-17 Permalink
Ephraim, that’s a very good question. It should be asked and I hope it is.
MarcG 12:22 on 2020-11-17 Permalink
The added some street parking spots near me by reducing the size of the no-parking zone around fire hydrants. Is the 4280 just a count of those removed or does it account for those created as well?
Ephraim 11:21 on 2020-11-18 Permalink
Kate – There isn’t a single spot anywhere around PdA/Desjardins anymore. (There are two in Chinatown) And yet… Revenu Quebec is there and people need access. Maybe part of the mandate for licencing parking structures should include reduced price parking for 1 to 2 hours for those with handicapped parking permits. These are NOT long term parking spots. This is for people who need to do business in the area and can’t walk far. And people forget that many handicaps are completely invisible, spinal stenosis, arthritis, chronic pain. All handicaps that you can’t actually see but make each step painful. It’s not just those in wheelchairs and braces.
And the other thing we forget is that we should have 5 minute loading/unloading zones or allow them to stop in bus zones to allow handicapped people that are being transported in/out. Even if driven by someone who isn’t handicapped and can park further away, they need to be loaded and unloaded close… the walker/chair set up for them, etc. If there is no place to do it, you have to block traffic to do it.