{"id":579,"date":"2008-02-05T03:40:04","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T08:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=579"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:25:41","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:25:41","slug":"parking-in-the-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/02\/05\/parking-in-the-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Parking in the snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.fagstein.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/parking2.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Steve Faguy has an <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.fagstein.com\/2008\/02\/05\/creative-parking\/#comment-18281\">interesting post on Fagstein<\/a> about the creative measures Montrealer drivers take when they need to park their cars after a big snowstorm. &#8220;When faced with a free spot knee-deep in snow, there are three options,&#8221; he writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>1. Find some temporary place to stash the car and dig the spot out with a shovel, hoping nobody swoops in and steals the spot after you\u2019ve cleared it (this also presents the recursive problem of where to put the car when you\u2019re clearing the spot)<\/p>\n<p>2. Declare the spot unparkable, and keep going looking for another one, which most likely doesn\u2019t exist<\/p>\n<p>3. Drive the car as far as it will go into the spot, and then give up, leaving it either parked diagonally, parked far from the curb, or both<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Parking your car diagonally seems to be the most popular solution. On some wide streets, I think it should actually be the norm, since diagonal parking has been known to calm traffic and create more parking spaces. While this measure is normally taken as a way to boost business on ailing commercial streets, it could also be used to great effect on broad residential streets that suffer from the problem of speeding cars.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.fagstein.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/parking7.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Photos by Steve Faguy<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Faguy has an interesting post on Fagstein about the creative measures Montrealer drivers take when they need to park their cars after a big snowstorm. &#8220;When faced with a free spot knee-deep in snow, there are three options,&#8221; he writes: 1. 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