04-16-2018, 11:35 AM
When I was an officer (and this was Kitchener, not Waterloo), I did not jump thru hoops to avoid writing a ticket. If an infraction was there and valid, I wrote the ticket. There are cars that were illegally parked, but I couldn't tag. That's just the downside of following the law. [Example: If I park in your driveway, by-law officers cannot issue a ticket unless there are signs stating "Private Property - Enforced Under By-Law #----". I know this car shouldn't be here, as the property owner wants it towed. But I can't do anything as no signs were posted before the car was parked.]
If I still worked there today, every one of those photos of a car on the tracks in Kitchener would have a slice of paper under the windshield.
I cannot speak to why Waterloo by-law is refusing to lay tickets in the bike lanes. If there is signage there, it should be tagged. There are no quotas for tickets, but officers need to justify their existence. It would surprise me if an officer would consistently ignore the violations, unless they were told by their bosses to not tag.
Coke
[Fun Fact: Got called to a private residence once, where he complained his neighbour parked in his driveway. Drove there expecting to tell him there was nothing I could do, but when I got there there was a piece of paper stuck to his garage with a handwritten private property sign. He signed the declaration that the sign was posted before the car was parked, so we tagged and towed it. I'm sure it wasn't his first rodeo, and the sign went up min before my arrival... but he met the legal standards I had to meet]
If I still worked there today, every one of those photos of a car on the tracks in Kitchener would have a slice of paper under the windshield.
I cannot speak to why Waterloo by-law is refusing to lay tickets in the bike lanes. If there is signage there, it should be tagged. There are no quotas for tickets, but officers need to justify their existence. It would surprise me if an officer would consistently ignore the violations, unless they were told by their bosses to not tag.
Coke
[Fun Fact: Got called to a private residence once, where he complained his neighbour parked in his driveway. Drove there expecting to tell him there was nothing I could do, but when I got there there was a piece of paper stuck to his garage with a handwritten private property sign. He signed the declaration that the sign was posted before the car was parked, so we tagged and towed it. I'm sure it wasn't his first rodeo, and the sign went up min before my arrival... but he met the legal standards I had to meet]