{"id":5362,"date":"2010-01-08T21:16:53","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T02:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=5362"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:38:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:38:19","slug":"non-residents-to-pay-for-parking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/01\/08\/non-residents-to-pay-for-parking\/","title":{"rendered":"Free parking for non-residents to end in Plateau"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The newly elected Projet-Montr\u00e9al borough council in Le Plateau-Mont-Royal have indicated<\/a> that they plan to phase out free parking spaces<\/a> in favour of charging non-resident drivers for the privilege.\u00a0 Facing a 4 million dollar deficit with few options to increase revenue, the borough council has been experimenting with new approaches<\/a> to increase revenue to make up for the budgetary shortfall caused mostly by the current economic slowdown and the near-record snowfalls of last winter.\u00a0 Public consultations will be held before any decisions are made.<\/p>\n

It is expected that 3 million dollars will be raised in new revenue annually.\u00a0 This, along with the decision not to truck away snow on weekends<\/a> which will save the borough around 1.5 million dollars this winter, should make up for the red ink, and then some.<\/p>\n

The borough currently has 10 000 to 11 000 free parking spots, mostly on-street spaces in residential areas.\u00a0 Alex Norris, a borough councilor, told the CBC that many of these spaces are used by “freeloaders who park for free on our residential streets, and don’t pay a penny for it”.<\/p>\n

The plan has potential to bring a number of benefits to the borough beyond balancing the budget.\u00a0 Public transit use will likely increase as more people leave their cars at home to avoid new parking fees; traffic, especially due to drivers roaming the streets in search of free parking, will diminish;\u00a0 and residents will find it easier to park their vehicles with the increase in zoned parking and less outsiders using the formally free spaces.\u00a0 Of course, some are unhappy with the plan.\u00a0 Chris Karidogiannis, a shop owner in Mile End who was involved in the fight against the ave du Parc name change is one such person. Never missing a chance to complain against any measures limiting vehicle use in the city, he called the plan a “new, left-wing, hippie, commie policy of getting rid of cars on the Plateau” and claims that “Hook or crook, we are an economy based on transportation by vehicle”.\u00a0 Apparently, he missed the point that such policies are part of a larger strategy being implemented in many cities around the world meant to transform such vehicle-based economies.\u00a0 Unfortunately for Karidogiannis, the hippie commies are gaining traction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The newly elected Projet-Montr\u00e9al borough council in Le Plateau-Mont-Royal have indicated that they plan to phase out free parking spaces in favour of charging non-resident drivers for the privilege.\u00a0 Facing a 4 million dollar deficit with few options to increase revenue, the borough council has been experimenting with new approaches to increase revenue to makeContinue reading “Free parking for non-residents to end in Plateau”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5014,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7836,7839,7840,31],"tags":[4674,295,4796,73,72,56,139,830,302],"class_list":["post-5362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","category-neighbourhoods","category-politics","category-traffic","tag-alex-norris","tag-cbc","tag-chris-karidogiannis","tag-headlines-a-la-une","tag-parking","tag-plateau-mont-royal","tag-politics-la-politique","tag-transportation-2","tag-usd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nFree parking for non-residents to end in Plateau - 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