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What the hell kind of city lifts the parking ban when the snow is clearly still impeding road safety? Stop being so affraid of the North End Hipsters who bought homes without parking and use the overnights to get those contractors to actually cut the snow banks and clear intersections so that people can see and drive safely! Have you seen some of the one-way streets around here? Try driving down one when there’s a half-tonne truck is parked on the side. Get your shit together, HRM and figure out this snow-clearing business. It’s Atlantic Canada. We get snow. Budget for it and manage it! —Can’t See Over the Banks.
This article appears in Feb 12-18, 2015.
Walk? Transit? Work from home? Be independently rich and live in a snow-less country?
why should anyone be allowed to park their privately owned vehicle on a public street overnight?
streets are not garages or driveways.
if you want to live in a downtown-y area in a home built lot line to lot line then rent a garage somewhere close by or be European and be car-less. rent one when you need it. don’t park your car on ‘our’ streets – your share of taxes does not cover nightly rental.
if you want to have a vehicle then live somewhere you can keep it on your property.
RUSSIA CIRCA 1905
“What the hell kind of city lifts the parking ban when snow is clearly still impeding road safety.” Can’s See Over The Banks
The problem is not so much lifting the parking ban but rather the snow still impeding road safety. If the snow were removed expeditiously then lifting the parking ban would not be a problem. So why isn’t the snow removed expeditiously? A good question.
Looking out the window of the Lord Nelson on to Spring Garden Road after a heavy snow storm some time ago I recall seeing an open truck discharge a crew of men who got busy with their shovels! That’s right, their shovels! “My God,” I thought to myself, “that looks like Russia circa 1905!”
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Agree with OP, the parking should extend until the roads are clear and widened.
What about the hipsters that went for sushi on Younge street, parking on both sides of the street so the buses got stuck (or had to detour). 20+ buses were detoured, averaging 15-30 people each bus, so hundreds detoured so that a few people could park on an already narrow street. Seriously HRM, please someone grow a pair and start towing cars that are impeding snow removal and efficient commuting! I still remember my first winter in Hali, it was a December night….in Clayton Park; I parked on the street and when I got up in the morning (left car at home; bused to work) I was the only vehicle on the street. Well, I had a ticket when I came home, that was the good old days, when the ban was December to March. So I got a ticket on a bone dry night; but some prick in a Dodge ram can block 20 buses on a busy street and he gets nothing? Enforce the ban. Tow the cars that impede. Short pay the contractors that don’t plow a street 100% (no more ‘I couldn’t plow because of a car).