if you live in halifax get used to living in the dark ages, where the buses run like they are being contolled by pre-schoolers, drinking in public tickets are 500$ a piece (anywhere else in canada 100$)
if montrealers can make winter parking work with 5 times the poeple with 1/3 the space and we cant. for shame, halifax, for shame.
were lucky us women folk can show our ankles.
catch up with the rest of canada please.
— up to eyes in debt for enjoying a brew in the park
This article appears in Feb 12-18, 2009.
are you condoning lowering the fine for public drinking?
how many beer/liquor bottles/cans do you see lining the streets downtown EVERY Sunday?
If these morons can get away with it, what does that say about you?
can’t really dispute the transit or winter parking…. but those were easy points you made. Surprised you didn’t include the “larger stadium” in there as well.
what about Purdy’s? they’re a pretty new-age design.
harbor hoppers aren’t exactly flintstone mobiles. We have an IMAX theatre, don’t auto-resent french-speaking Canadians (the converse is certainly not true), and didn’t try to actually LEAVE Canada.
we’ve got a ways to go but we’re not exactly living in the stone age.
I’m guessing OP got fined for drinking in public and has some sour grapes.
There are enough drunkards on the streets of Halifax at any given point of any given evening with the fine being so high — can you imagine how many there’d be with a lower fine?
Suck it up OP or move someplace else. It’s that simple.
I think if you’re attempting to validate public drinking in this city, bub, you’re in the stone age. Do you understand what that would do on a Saturday night? Barrington would turn into a complete shit-show real quick and stop being a street and more like a pub. 500 buck is just fine thank you. This isn’t the sticks (see, drinking in public is what they do in the sticks). Having spent all of December in Montreal and having seen what their Winter parking was like and having experienced it myself, they DON’T make it work. It’s a absolute shit-show in downtown Montreal after a snowstorm. They’ll actually bury your car if you leave it on the road and if there’s damage it’s your responsibility sir. (I’d rather get a ticket and have them avoid it). Secondly, most people don’t live within the main core of the city. If they do, they’ve got indoor parking. If they live in, let’s say, in one of the city residential areas, they’ve got MTS servicing them (which by the way, the buses are poop, but the subway, fantastic and super quick) and they leave the car at home. That’s how Montrealers deal with Winter. Zzz, I see your point, however, the Harbour Hopper? Sure, it’s not Stone Age, but it is WW II British Army surplus. So it’s old, but not that old. They’re old troop carriers. Seriously. Check it out.
yeah, I remember… the gun was on the back, etc….
true.
I was trying to think of validating points and didn’t manage to slip that one by.
touche.
but do other major cities use road/boat vehicles for tourism purposes? defense purposes? the subs in the Edmonton mall don’t count. That’s half our navy right there….but they don’t leave the water.
Yeah, I think Vancouver uses a variant of them. At least the Edmonton mall subs work and they probably didn’t pay 2 billion dollars for them.
Just don’t pay the fine.
They put you in jail…the jails is so overcrowded that they are sleeping inmates on the floor, & anyone who’s not a risk or in for petty offense is sent home on house arrest or curfew. So you get to stay home & keep your $500.00
shit. Ok Fever, you are a little more worldly than I. I haven’t been there in 5 or so years. Perhaps they were there at that time but I had the fortunate timing of enjoying the god damn city on a public transit strike.
least I wasn’t snowed on like Luiz Fernando da Costa on a bender (hurricane Juan). Anyway, we wouldn’t be considered a pre-historic non-civilized, old-fashioned hole if not for the Heritage Rtards who want to keep our building made out of mud and clay.
i didnt find montreal’s street situations to bad when i was there in december…it snowed everyday for the week i was there. yeah some cars got buried. but the expectation is that they move the car to the other side of the road after one side is plowed. hardly a hurculean task. the roads were a bit icy…but a recent freezing rain storm had passed through. hardly the parking czar’s fault.
if you look at the cash cow this parking ban has become…it ridiculous…something like an average of 200 tickets a night i believe. couldnt the money saved by consumers if the ban was lifted be better spent INSIDE the local pub or on socks to cover up those ladies ankles?
zZz- Yes, other larger cities us the amphibious boats for tourism. Three that spring to mind are, Toronto, Boston and LondonUK. They’re very popular
I love this post. I love you OP:)
Hey, I’m all about having heritage, but we do need to be modern as well. I actually like the idea for the new development on the historic properties.
Yes Halifax is behind the times, but I think the OP is going a tad overboard. It’s a conservative area – hence the lack of the atheist adverts on the buses.
Live with it, or move the frack on.
when did montreal become about 1/3 the size of HRM peninsula?
One car v. plow strategy that I witnessed in Montreal (more than a decade ago) was this:
Tow trucks were paid a flat rate and hit neighbourhoods/streets just prior to their assigned plow(s) going through. Unmoved cars were grabbed, towed, and dropped. They did not bother taking them to an impound, just moved them a few blocks out of the way. Imagine having to go find your car after a storm. Imagine a second tow grabbing it and moving it in a random direction a second time.
Seemed like a good deterrent to me. Might have generated a few too many complaints, though, if Montreal has switched to the less aggressive (read sarcasm) side-swiped-by-a-plow tactic. Loves it.
Three…your story about the tow trucks is kinda hilarious.
Dr Fever, the Harbour Hopper is a LARK V, an American craft used in Vietnam (1963-1970).
Could have sworn there was a story in the Coast about them being WW II surplus…