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Originally Posted by Richard Eade
It sounds as if there are full-time Bylaw officers dedicated to nailing people parking in the By-Ward Market garage for more than 3 hours. In 57 days, 962 tickets have been issued. That’s an average of about 17 tickets each day!
https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/hu...yward-market-parking-garage-this-spring/
So, what is the City’s goal? To restrict the amount of time that people spend in The Market? Or to guide people to use the City parking structure at 141 Clarence instead, so that the one at 90 Clarence can be declared ‘Under Used’, and torn down?
According to the City Councilor for the area (Plante), the City is trying to encourage use of public transit to get to The Market. Unfortunately, the only way to get people to use transit is to make using transit MUCH better. Using a ‘Stick’ to try to force transit use will only prevent people from going downtown at all.
And I’m pretty sure that people getting a $100 parking ticket if they stay for more than three hours is NOT what is pulling customers into the Lowertown Brewery. |
This was a very frustrating change they made. Other than Thursday and Friday evenings (when time restrictions aren't in effect), I've never seen that parking garage full. It wasn't necessary at all.
As I mentioned a few weeks back, I prefer parking and not having to figure out how much time I'll be there at the machine, or worrying I'll run out of time when I'm out and about. I much prefer gated parking where I can be out as long as I want and pay whatever I need to pay when I leave.
I suspect this was another miss-guided move based on the local businesses' opinions instead of any sort of well thought out policy change.
This move can only hurt the Market.
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