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JOCELYNE LLOYD: Parking plans seem driven by enforcement
I like to think of myself as a reasonable person who, after many years in the journalism field, can see that there is more than one side to any issue. But nothing sends me straight into an irrational fury faster than getting a parking ticket.
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Yes, I am guilty of having been that creature loathed by downtown retailers and who causes distress to city planners — I am an unrepentant meter feeder.
Prince Edward Island’s two cities have been putting some effort in recent months on strategies to deal with the paradox of attracting more people to their downtowns while also freeing up more parking. It seems to me those two goals are probably mutually exclusive, but I’m no urban planner and I’ve already confessed to being an illegal parker.
In Charlottetown, a consultant group began collecting data and holding open houses almost two years ago then began drafting a parking management strategy in the fall. In January, WSP Canada presented the strategy to council.
Dave McCusker, senior transportation engineer for WSP, raised the issue of one-hour spaces, “Only about one in eight vehicles that park there park for an hour or less, and all of the others are parking for longer than an hour, some of them for more than three hours at a time. So that’s something we feel would need to be addressed.”
I guess now is the time to confess I am also guilty of being a over-the-limit parking spot hogger. While........