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In effect, the permit holders have complete rights to 100% of all private parking (surface or underground), plus complete rights to 85% of all street parking, plus equal rights as visitors to the remaining 15% of all remaining parking spots. Isn't that a bit much?
A visitor cannot park all day in a visitor spot in the West End. The tiny 15% that is allocated to visitors is 2 hours only during the day. After six p.m. a visitor can park overnight, but so can anyone with a resident permit, so these spaces disappear instantly.
This was ticketed for not moving for street cleaning. It should have been compacted.
It's been moved a car-length or two twice in a couple of years.
This piece of shit has been moved to 800 block Broughton for the past few months, thanks asshole.
Here's another piece of shit stored on the street (note red car behind, per above).
Eventually somebody slammed this backwards onto the curb, to create space for people actually wanting to park.
Permits are only available to folks who have their cars registered with a West End address. There are very limited locations where you can actually get these permits. There are no permits available for rental cars nor do they have any sort of resident privileges like MODO. As a result, if I rent a car and need to park overnight, it's almost impossible to find a spot. I've spent up to 45 minutes driving around and around looking for something, often ending up blocks from my home while there is empty permit parking available right outside my door.
So, how about some constructive suggestions?
One
Revise the ratio of permit to non-permit parking to something more
reasonable, like 70% resident / 30% visitor.
Two
Having intelligently adjusted the 85/15 ratio to 70/30, change the
rule for the 30% so that residential permit holders cannot park in
that 30% AT ANY TIME. After all, they already have 100% of all private and 70% of all
on-street parking, enough is enough, give the rest of us a break.
Three
Raise the price of an on-street parking permit to at least, say, $365.00 a year
(only $1.00 per day). This will give the on-street car storage dickheads
an incentive not to leave their piece of crap out there for months on end.
What's a buck a day? If you're not driving it get rid of it. However, evidence
to the contrary continues to prove that people this stupid don't really care.
Four
Give the city's eager parking enforcers the right to mark and tow
away any vehicle that is clearly stored and not parked on the road.
These people have parking passes, not storage licences. A vehicle
that hasn't moved in a month or more, or that hasn't been moved as
required for street cleaning or tree limbing, should qualify for towing.
Five
Allow rental cars (just like MODO co-op cars) the right to park in
any residential permit zone in Vancouver. Folks aren't going to go out and
rent a car just to get free parking, they rent when they have to. This
would be a simple matter of creating a rental car permit sticker, perhaps,
and golly gee get another sourch of revenue for the Mare from car rental
companies that want their fleet to have this privilege.
Six
Sell one-use-only resident parking passes that can be purchased in
advance (when the permit sellers are actually open, and at my
convenience not theirs) and then punched to show current date and/or
time, and left in the car's window to allow parking in a permit zone.
This would allow visitors with un-permitted vehicles to pay for limited
use of resident parking. Convenient for residents and visitors alike,
because they can be purchased in advance and on hand when needed. This
would also be an easy source of brand-new revenue for the city right
out of the blue. Just print and sell passes, nothing further required.
There are lots of empty resident-only spaces on the street.
It's a stroke of genius, just give me 10% of the take.
Oh yes, note that this obscenity is directly in line with the sidewalk coming from the front door of the adjacent apartment. Reaching the street to get in a cab or handivan, for example, is now impossible for the handicapped, and difficult and messy for anybody. But who cares about that in the Mare's office? Nothing will stop the war on cars!