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Don't leave your car parked on Adelaide/Richmond after 2am on Thu/Fri/Sat/Sun nights!
I hadn't parked my car on either of those streets recently but in the past years I've parked there more times than I can count. Well, I failed to notice the new 'No Standing 2am-6am FRI-MON' signs that went up. Returning to an empty Richmond street around 3:30am with no parked car in sight was a bit of a surprise.
Apparently these signs were put in some time in late September and City Council put in the by-law to ban parking from 2am-6am on Richmond/Adelaide on June 29. I guess this falls into the other restrictions being put on the area (new liquor licenses/noise on patios/etc.)
While parking signs on the street supercede any display on a parking machine I find it misleading that they didn't bother to change any of the info displays on the machines on Richmond/Adelaide - where most people are staring when they go to pay to park. Considering the highest concentration of use on those streets is between Friday and Monday you'd figure our city council would actually not try to rip off the people who elected them (ya right).
Now for the Tow yard drama:
Took a cab over to A Towing by ACC and there were a few people there that had the same thing happen. Gotta love a $60 ticket and $112 towing fee. So, turns out that earlier in the night someone freaked out over getting towed and they smashed A Towing's interac/CC machine so now I could only pay CASH. This other guy was waiting to pay but didn't have enough cash and was pissed off he couldn't pay with CC - so while arguing with the woman at the desk I guess his friend ran in and got into his car and was going to drive it out. The Towing people closed the gate and blocked it - but the guy just drove his car right up to the gate and wasn't letting any other people/cars leave (who had already paid their tow) -- this continued until the cops showed up and forced him to move his car.
Don't you just love bureaucracy?
Sometimes Toronto could teach the Byzantines a lesson in fucked up bureaucracy
getting towed is awful...
I was towed once from the CN tower, as I came back from dropping dinner to my girlfriend (at the time)who worked there, my car was gone. I managed to flag down a tow truck and asked him where cars go when they are towed.
It turns out he was the guy who had just towed mine...and he drove me to the lot with another car hooked on the back. It was quite the conversation on the drive.
I recall that being the definition of awkward.
FYI never park your car on Yonge street anywhere between 401 and Finch during rush hour...they tow religiously.
they do this all the time... no standing between 2am and 6am? i guess they really dont want people downtown eh?
its decoding parking signs like that and the parking fine cottage industry along with traffic that prevents me from coming downtown unless i have to.
How is anyone supposed to read a wall of regulations like that? Imagine the poor tourist suckers that come here!
It's all done on purpose to confuse the fuck out of you, make you give up in frustration then tow your car once you're out of sight.
if you ever get towed, go to the towing company and demand for your car back. if they demand that you pay, tell them you are calling the police and reporting that your car was stolen (by the tow company).
you might have a verbal arguement but NO TOW DRIVER can legally tow your car without verbal / written warning being received (and confirmed/receipted) by said owner, and the company, legally, has to give you your car back.
merry xmas!
errr. no
Re: Don't leave your car parked on Adelaide/Richmond after 2am on Thu/Fri/Sat/Sun nights!
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| Originally posted by Swamper I hadn't parked my car on either of those streets recently but in the past years I've parked there more times than I can count. Well, I failed to notice the new 'No Standing 2am-6am FRI-MON' signs that went up. Returning to an empty Richmond street around 3:30am with no parked car in sight was a bit of a surprise. Apparently these signs were put in some time in late September and City Council put in the by-law to ban parking from 2am-6am on Richmond/Adelaide on June 29. I guess this falls into the other restrictions being put on the area (new liquor licenses/noise on patios/etc.) While parking signs on the street supercede any display on a parking machine I find it misleading that they didn't bother to change any of the info displays on the machines on Richmond/Adelaide - where most people are staring when they go to pay to park. Considering the highest concentration of use on those streets is between Friday and Monday you'd figure our city council would actually not try to rip off the people who elected them (ya right). Now for the Tow yard drama: Took a cab over to A Towing by ACC and there were a few people there that had the same thing happen. Gotta love a $60 ticket and $112 towing fee. So, turns out that earlier in the night someone freaked out over getting towed and they smashed A Towing's interac/CC machine so now I could only pay CASH. This other guy was waiting to pay but didn't have enough cash and was pissed off he couldn't pay with CC - so while arguing with the woman at the desk I guess his friend ran in and got into his car and was going to drive it out. The Towing people closed the gate and blocked it - but the guy just drove his car right up to the gate and wasn't letting any other people/cars leave (who had already paid their tow) -- this continued until the cops showed up and forced him to move his car. |
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| Originally posted by Swamper |
5 bloody signs on one post?? Not uncommon...but daaayammnn. Retards.
sorry to hear that.. thats why I worry sometimes when I park downtown... i once arrived to a ticket in a proper parking area.. was legit and everything.. they will do anything to make money...
Re: Don't leave your car parked on Adelaide/Richmond after 2am on Thu/Fri/Sat/Sun nights!
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| Originally posted by Blipvert if you ever get towed, go to the towing company and demand for your car back. if they demand that you pay, tell them you are calling the police and reporting that your car was stolen (by the tow company). you might have a verbal arguement but NO TOW DRIVER can legally tow your car without verbal / written warning being received (and confirmed/receipted) by said owner, and the company, legally, has to give you your car back. merry xmas! |
wow, that's lame
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| Originally posted by 2famous4u sorry to hear that.. thats why I worry sometimes when I park downtown... i once arrived to a ticket in a proper parking area.. was legit and everything.. they will do anything to make money... |
This is why you need to go vote for a new mayor and new council. This article sums up this issue nicely:
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Let's ditch anti-car policies New council should officially declare that the auto is not the enemy These are only a few of the things I want from the new Toronto council we will elect today -- besides the killing of that salary hike the last crowd voted for themselves. First, a new deal on road construction. Make it so that no more than one road in an area can be dug up at a time. Repairs cannot be allowed to last for months or even years. There must be fines about not meeting a deadline. Simple repairs must be done at night. No closing of expressways for marathons. Let the runners run in parks. Second, a new deal on parking. It should be free earlier in the evening -- and on Saturday nights and Sunday mornings. And if council really wants to help strip merchants, no parking charges at all in some blighted areas. That might help to stop the flight of business to plazas in the 905. They're killing the goose of golden parking revenue -- because bankrupt shops don't pay taxes. There's no need for Toronto Parking Authority rates that are so high, you think you're buying, not renting, a few feet of asphalt for a few hours. Third, council must pursue the idea, just floated, that assessment would not go up on houses between sales. The U.S. has had such a system for years. Our system of assessment is now under review, thank heavens, but any conclusions must be studied by a special task force because the province has demonstrated that it can't be trusted in this as well as many other urban areas, such as the downloading of costs. Fourth, council must officially declare the car is not the enemy and that present traffic (and transit) policies, which are formally anti-car, must be killed. Let's start listening to traffic engineers about unnecessary signals and speed humps that just dump traffic on neighbouring streets. Let's stop this measles of stop signs and the deliberate narrowing of corners to handicap vehicles. Also, let's tell Queen's Park that it must limit the size of tractor-trailers inside cities because many giants can't even turn a street corner without taking most of the road. Fifth. stop the $100-million scheme to elevate St. Clair streetcars on their own right-of-way. This project has proven to be poisonous to the neighbourhood. It will strangle other traffic and make a simple trip across the avenue an obstacle run. Obviously the stores will suffer, just as people now avoid Spadina. It was said that when this was done on Spadina, it was a success. Yet John Sewell has pointed out that streetcars move just as quickly on Bathurst, where nothing has been done to help them. Now, in my view, Sewell is like that girl in the rhyme who, "when she was good, she was very, very good/And when she was bad, she was horrid." When the former mayor (and would-be comeback councillor) is right, he can save us a lot of money. When he's wrong, he's a pain. Sixth, the city must get the province to pay for more of the TTC. When you try to get on the subway at Royal York station in the morning rush, the train is already jammed with Mississauga riders -- who don't contribute as much as Torontonians do to the cost of every TTC ride. Just one of the many reasons why the province must stop cheating and pay up for the TTC. The suburban parking lots at the end of subways, which are supposed to be a bargain for Metropass holders, fill early with GTA users. Sure, it keeps their cars off our streets, but why do we, who pay more to live in the city, have to subsidize them? Seventh, Jane Pepino has raised the question of why we have cops supervising at construction sites. Why indeed? If the cops are short in manpower, let every cop do real policing. Let the developers hire security guards. It really isn't that difficult to stop traffic so a truck can back up. And tell the builders they can't routinely block off the inside lane of the road beside their new building without paying, say, Toronto Parking Authority rates. |
the best part is that you pay 10-15 bucks to park on the street and then you come out at 2:30 and your car is gone anyways!
This city is really killing itself slowly isnt it?
Lets encourage people to come downtown by pulling the old bait and switch routine. And this isnt the only place where these sorts of schemes are set up btw.
My favourite is the one hour between 8 and 9 that parking goes from permit only to free for all to paid meter parking. Interesting that people get to work between 8 and 9 isnt it? Also interesting that you cant pay for parking until exactly 9am. I wonder how many people are late because they forget and then come back at 9:15 to find their car missing?
How many times do you see a parking bylaw car driving around with a tow truck right behind it?
Such a scam... Id call it corruption at its finest
Wow...that's extremely shitty to hear Del. Sorry about your luck! And thanks for letting everyone know. That's why when I come to Toronto now, I just park my car in Josh's parking lot ($9/24hr) and leave it there. I'll take a cab or TTC, b/c I don't want to risk parking somewhere and finding out I'm towed later. That happened to us twice back in the summer of 2004 when Josh's car got towed b/c the signs are so confusing!
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| Originally posted by *~LiSa-LoO~* Wow...that's extremely shitty to hear Del. Sorry about your luck! And thanks for letting everyone know. That's why when I come to Toronto now, I just park my car in Josh's parking lot ($9/24hr) and leave it there. I'll take a cab or TTC, b/c I don't want to risk parking somewhere and finding out I'm towed later. That happened to us twice back in the summer of 2004 when Josh's car got towed b/c the signs are so confusing! |
so freakin crappy dood!
this is why id rather pay $10-15 to park in a lot than on the road.
on thursday i parked on the road right in front of hotel. parking is free after midnight and i got there at like 11:15. as i was going to the parking machine thingy, parking enforcement was already at my car writing me a ticket. i ran back to her and told her i was paying for parking and she moved on.
fucking cops...
I've been towed before on Richmond! It fucking sucks! You have to walk all the way to York and Lakeshore and it costs $100+ dollars + Ticket and everything.
Thank goodness I now have free underground parking downtown! I hate trying to find a parking spot.
I have never been towed but I have a question,
Are towing companies responsible for any damaged caused to your veichle as a result of them towing it away?
Cheers
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| Originally posted by jazzyrj I have never been towed but I have a question, Are towing companies responsible for any damaged caused to your veichle as a result of them towing it away? Cheers |
Wow, sorry to hear that Del, but thanks to your misfortune, I think you've informed a LOT of people about the parking situation there, that most of us probably knew nothing about. What a joke! What's the logic in that anyways?
Now, I know its a pain in the ass, but u can easily fight that ticket and win (or at least get a reduced payment). Good thing you took pictures, take it to the officer of the court as proof.
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| Originally posted by jazzyrj I have never been towed but I have a question, Are towing companies responsible for any damaged caused to your veichle as a result of them towing it away? Cheers |
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