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<\/p>\nI like CP24. It’s a useful channel, and does some good local features. I can even imagine that in rare instances, for a breaking news story on a busy road with no parking, their vehicles might have to mount the sidewalk.<\/p>\n
However, there were no breaking news stories in my neighbourhood today — in fact, I saw the news anchor walking leisurely down the street with no cameras in sight, perhaps to get lunch. And my local street is not busy, and in any case there’s plenty of space on the street since there is parking at night. So why this?<\/p>\n
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Sure, there’s no parking on this street during the day. But do they seriously consider that parking half-way on the sidewalk makes it somehow better?<\/p>\n
Sidewalks are for pedestrians.\u00a0Sidewalks take up far less space than roads. So at least give us walkers\u00a0that, without encroaching vehicles onto the sidewalk too. You don’t see pedestrians\u00a0sitting in\u00a0couches in the middle of the road, do you?<\/p>\n
At the pedestrian committee, one of our members conducted a long and depressingly futile campaign to get the police to stop parking on sidewalks for no reason. Somehow, people who feel they have\u00a0urgent business (police, courier companies, delivery trucks, TV news) seem to feel that parking on the sidewalk is their right, even when there’s no actual urgency. I suspect it makes them feel important: “Look, I’m in such a rush I have to park on the sidewalk!”<\/p>\n
Really, you don’t. Park on the street where you belong. We won’t think less of you. In fact, we’ll think better of you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"