Downtown outdoor spaces

[danbrotherston]

So yeah I certainly felt, the visual juxtiposition of excessive oppressive levels of transit enforcement (of mostly poorer people) walking past four illegally parked including one 130 thousand dollar SUV was quite poignant.

Why don't you write a parking ticket then?  You have exactly the same amount of training and legal authority as the transit security guards have...

Okay, I seriously don't understand what point you are trying to make here. Do you feel that transit riders being subjected to constant enforcement, while constant and pervasive dangerous lawbreaking by drivers is all but ignored, isn't a problematic prioritization of enforcement? Or something else? Because I've already explained the point here, yet you are ignoring my explanation. So what am I to take from your statement?

Honestly, I don't want to get in a fight with you on this, you can call me a dick if you want, it's not an entirely unfair accusation. I don't like feeling this way, but my feelings are a result of the situation, not a result of me being a suspicious or nasty person...to the contrary, I'm frankly, quite naive.

For what it's worth, I called back later, and inquired about subsequent complaints, and officers returned and this time they quoted the reason for not issuing tickets as the vehicles having permits. So maybe the first officer just made a mistake in recording, I don't know. But I still don't think it's right to have vehicles parked in a pedestrian square.

2) The fact the vehicles have "permits" shows that it is not a pedestrian square as much as you would like to think that it is.  Now to push your councillor to change it into a pedestrian square.

We've already fought and won the battle to make it a pedestrian square. The problem is that we live in a society that apparently permits parking in a pedestrian square. Changing society is much harder.