MarcosSantiago
Well-known member
I got this today in an email:
"Hi everyone.
A year ago last May, many of us scooter and moped riders started receiving parking tickets for doing something we've always done without penalty: park on city sidewalks. As a result we emailed our councillors, we created this petition, we held a rally, and persuaded Councillor Josh Matlow to put forward a motion to the city’s Public Works & Infrastructure Committee to come up with scooter parking solutions.
Well, in many ways, our battle to restore the right of scooters and mopeds to park on city sidewalks without getting ticketed is done. And we lost.
Yesterday I had a meeting with Toronto’s General Manager of Transportation Services, Stephen Buckley, Councillor Josh Matlow, and several city bureaucrats and parking enforcement types. They unveiled to me their proposed recommendations going forward for scooter and moped parking in the city. Nowhere in their plan will scooters and mopeds be able to park on the sidewalks like they used to, on any city sidewalk, like bicycles do, as long as they're not obstructing pedestrian traffic. Those days are gone."
The email then explains the Transportation Services plan again, a plan that has been posted before: 250 parking spots for motorcycles for a metro area of more than 6,000,000 people.
25 designated parking zones on downtown city streets.
Each zone will consist of 10 spots to be used by scooters, mopeds, and motorcycles.
Initially, parking will be free (but pay-parking may come later).
Downtown is classified as Spadina (East) to Jarvis (West) and the lake (South) to Dundas (North).
These designated zones won’t prevent scooter riders from parking on private property (IF they have building owner’s permission) or from parking on the street with cars and other vehicles, like they do now.
That didn't go so well...
Full communication was posted here: https://www.change.org/p/toronto-pa...-toronto-sidewalks/u/53bea72784aec80783bdae75
"Hi everyone.
A year ago last May, many of us scooter and moped riders started receiving parking tickets for doing something we've always done without penalty: park on city sidewalks. As a result we emailed our councillors, we created this petition, we held a rally, and persuaded Councillor Josh Matlow to put forward a motion to the city’s Public Works & Infrastructure Committee to come up with scooter parking solutions.
Well, in many ways, our battle to restore the right of scooters and mopeds to park on city sidewalks without getting ticketed is done. And we lost.
Yesterday I had a meeting with Toronto’s General Manager of Transportation Services, Stephen Buckley, Councillor Josh Matlow, and several city bureaucrats and parking enforcement types. They unveiled to me their proposed recommendations going forward for scooter and moped parking in the city. Nowhere in their plan will scooters and mopeds be able to park on the sidewalks like they used to, on any city sidewalk, like bicycles do, as long as they're not obstructing pedestrian traffic. Those days are gone."
The email then explains the Transportation Services plan again, a plan that has been posted before: 250 parking spots for motorcycles for a metro area of more than 6,000,000 people.
25 designated parking zones on downtown city streets.
Each zone will consist of 10 spots to be used by scooters, mopeds, and motorcycles.
Initially, parking will be free (but pay-parking may come later).
Downtown is classified as Spadina (East) to Jarvis (West) and the lake (South) to Dundas (North).
These designated zones won’t prevent scooter riders from parking on private property (IF they have building owner’s permission) or from parking on the street with cars and other vehicles, like they do now.
That didn't go so well...
Full communication was posted here: https://www.change.org/p/toronto-pa...-toronto-sidewalks/u/53bea72784aec80783bdae75
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