Parking in Waterloo Region

[ookpik]

So here is why Kitchener has a 5hr reparking limit...

Yes, I think that's pretty obvious. But the "solution" is counterproductive. Legitimate customers who have legitimate reasons for patronizing downtown merchants more than once a day are subject to parking tickets for their legitimate use of "free" parking. IOW Kitchener's and Waterloo's reparking policy penalizes the most loyal customers of downtown merchants, i.e. those who do business in the core most frequently.

I appreciate that there was abuse by people who work downtown, i.e. the employees of businesses who complain that they're losing business to the suburbs due to free parking. ISTM those employers have a problem with those employees. Why is the city aiding and abetting them in disciplining their employess? After all the businesss themselves have more powerful tools to deal with this issue--without antagonizing their own customers in the process.