Parking tickets issued despite the snow
Even though many streets are still piled with snow, parking tickets have been handed out. The city’s lightening up on some parking rules but tickets are still being issued. TVA got an influencer to say he doesn’t like it.
Joey 11:27 on 2025-02-25 Permalink
The fact that 85% of tickets involved cars being towed suggests that the city really is indeed focusing on getting cars out of the way of snow removal operations – sucks for drivers, but too bad so sad. Park your car indoors at Marche Centrale or the Big O or god knows wherever for a few days, or consider the ticket the cost of doing business and move on with your life. Before the diagonal parking story was a CTV piece it was a big thread on a FB group.
roberto 14:17 on 2025-02-25 Permalink
They’re clearly some tolerance about the parking rule “not more than 30 centimetres from the near edge of the roadway”. Somtimes the snow bank takes up much more of the roadway. It’s obviously tolerated when you’re not impeding into the passage of vehicles on the roadway. I’d assume the diagonal parking would be treated with the same tolerance. Parking diagonally can make it easier to get in/out of those treacherous snow bank spots.
Joey 15:05 on 2025-02-25 Permalink
I think in this particular situation the problem was that Hutchison is a two-way street – the big snowbanks combined with the cars on both sides of the street being parked diagonally (actually closer to 90 degrees than 45, based on the photos) meant that there was no way that anywhere close to two lanes of traffic remained open.
roberto 15:22 on 2025-02-25 Permalink
“we’re not blocking the way” . But in this case many actually are. There’s nothing exceptional about a snow storm in Montreal.
In the case of Hutchison, as a two-way street, using one of those lanes for “parking” converting it to a one way street is completely unnaceptable. It’s not even about “diagonal parking” anymore. Left parked cars are facing the wrong way & in the MIDDLE of the street!
jeather 16:32 on 2025-02-25 Permalink
As far as I saw, of a lot of diagonally parked cars, as long as there was a proper lane per direction, they let it all go — St-Antoine lost an entire lane that way until it was cleared, but it did have one slightly extra wide lane left. They ticketed cars that actually blocked traffic.
Kevin 20:47 on 2025-02-25 Permalink
Roberto
Philippe Sabourin told drivers repeatedly this winter to park at least 30 cm from the curb so sidewalk plows could pass.
Ian 22:42 on 2025-02-25 Permalink
I live on Hutchison, and yeah it was down to one lane more or less after Sunday… with or without parked cars. The plows were only making a single lane. TBH I was surprised the city didn’t make it one way until it was cleared, i even saw cop cars block each other once, trying to pass in a narrow spot at a bulb out. A few xars were parked badly but most of us dug in as best we could . Most of the problem was simply snow nit being pushed aside. The sidewalks never got cleared either.