In a closed-door session Tuesday, Halifax council discussed the Argyle Street parking fiasco of a few weeks back: at 5pm on a Friday—happy hour for the bars—crews threw “no parking” signs on meters and went into businesses to warn patrons their cars would soon be towed. Businesses reportedly lost hundreds of customers. The city subsequently […]
Winter parking ban
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Council can change the law
The parking ban in the Halifax Regional Municipality is an outdated law which should be changed. As a former police officer, I issued many overnight parking tickets when the winter ban was in effect simply because orders came from my supervisors to do so, even when the weather was free from snowstorms. When I became […]
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Hypocritical Uteck
Councillor Sue Uteck: I find it interesting that you are able to condemn the winter parking ban tickets issued last Sunday evening as a “tax grab.” And yet less than a week earlier you were on CBC radio promoting the new HRM “tax reform,” a proposal designed to lower your own taxes, and raise taxes […]
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Will be parking it somewhere else
This full-time parking ban is absolutely outrageous in this time of economic turmoil. This city is so ass-backwards with the way it runs its day-to-day operations and with the way it treats its citizens. Fifty dollars for parking on the street! Where are people supposed to put their cars? Up their asses? The city’s public […]
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Winter wonderland
I think it’s absolutely wonderful that the HRM has begun issuing winter ban parking tickets, particularly on a rainy Sunday evening—the first night of the ban —when no snow removal efforts were underway. I was under the impression that the ban began on December 15, as were most people I had spoken with regarding this […]
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Winter Parking Ban
Nothing like waking up Monday morning to a parking ticket but at least there was company in misery as at least 50 other people on my street received the same mean-spirited surprise this morning – a ticket for violating the winter parking ban. Great awareness campaign City of Halifax! When I phoned to complain I […]