Sucks to see how a smaller city like Montreal is so much more logical in planning their street parking and public transit.
In Montreal you have to punch in plate number and pay as much as car. This seems punitive.
Sucks to see how a smaller city like Montreal is so much more logical in planning their street parking and public transit.
Actually the way it works (if youre not using any app whatsoever) is there are parking identifiers ie. B11, B12, B13, ETC. You enter that number at the pay station, and pay for that spot.In Montreal you have to punch in plate number and pay as much as car. This seems punitive.
Welcome to John Tory's Toronto. Get ready to pay more for everything. Bike parking wasn't always free. I had mine towed twice 30 years ago, had to pick it up from Cherry St. After that I never went back to T.O. with my bike.
I have never been to a city where every single solitary inch of land is used up to the point where you can't park a motorcycle until I went to Toronto. Talk about Greed City.
That's "Rob Ford's Toronto." Tory isn't sworn in until December 2nd.
Oh, well it should be easy to get changed then. But srsly, I doubt this was Ford's idea.
That's a good idea, but here's the problem: Toronto is full of angry people, mostly from Etobicoke and Scarborough, who don't want to pay anything and vote for people who plan to run a city on fairy dust.
Promote motorcycling!? that's leftard liberal communism, and a slippery slope to forcing us all to ride bicycles: read the Sun, they tell the TRUTH (all caps).
So, instead, you nickel and dime the taxpayer in small amounts that add up to huge amounts, but that's ok, because old people in Etobicoke can't do math anyway.
This tech is not about the price now, but how easy it will be to increase the price later with a few keystrokes on a server.
Actually the way it works (if youre not using any app whatsoever) is there are parking identifiers ie. B11, B12, B13, ETC. You enter that number at the pay station, and pay for that spot.
If you use the smartphone app, i dont think theres any place where you enter your plate number as per
https://pservicemobile.ca/pub/3/site/scsm/psp/scsm-www/page/commentEN
But then you can refill from whereever you are when you get an alert telling you your time is gonna be up.
So not any better for your motorcycle really... except that theres no parking validation ticket, its all electronic.
Welcome to John Tory's Toronto. Get ready to pay more for everything. Bike parking wasn't always free. I had mine towed twice 30 years ago, had to pick it up from Cherry St. After that I never went back to T.O. with my bike.
I have never been to a city where every single solitary inch of land is used up to the point where you can't park a motorcycle until I went to Toronto. Talk about Greed City.
In Montreal you have to punch in plate number and pay as much as car. This seems punitive.
City's infrastructure is about as stable as wet paper towel. There's gonna be a lot of change to generate the money needed to fix the city infrastructure, otherwise, every road will lead AROUND Toronto. (might not be a bad thing...)
the OP video said the city expects to get $250,000/yr in revenue from this...chump change.
Oh, well it should be easy to get changed then. But srsly, I doubt this was Ford's idea.
Toronto is really failing. Becoming an ugly, soulless city. It's already architecturally defunct, lacking attractions, entertainment, public spaces, waterfront, proper transit system. Now everyone that lives there or wants to visit gets punished. Extra taxes here and there, fees, levies - keep 'em coming. Gonna end up like Detroit eventually.
Toronto is really failing. Becoming an ugly, soulless city. It's already architecturally defunct, lacking attractions, entertainment, public spaces, waterfront, proper transit system. Now everyone that lives there or wants to visit gets punished. Extra taxes here and there, fees, levies - keep 'em coming. Gonna end up like Detroit eventually.
Mmh, I do not own a cell phone at all. I gave it up a while back. Now what for me?
It wasn't even on Rob Ford's radar. Lefty councilor Wong-Tam started the ball rolling, she has a real hate-on for motorcycles.