Parking in Waterloo Region

[ookpik]

No period of on-street parking should be without a charge to the person actually using it.... It's not so much the 5-hour "no reparking" rule that is the problem; it's that two hours are offered "free" in the first place.

I don't have a problem with that principle. The downtown merchants have a problem with that principle. Good luck convincing them of the error in their ways.

My experience with reparking was a necessary one. I was bringing books to the used bookstores; one store wouldn't take some, but the other would. Nobody's going to park in one spot (free or pay) and carry a box of books all the way down to the other end of King Street.

I took our passport renewals to the passport office. The clerk didn't like my wife's passport photo and rejected her application. So I went back home, got her to have her photo retaken (in Waterloo) then went back to the passport office to resubmit her application. I didn't even realize that parking in the core the second time that day was considered a crime in Kitchener. 

Now imagine if she'd driven the car instead of me and got a ticket for "reparking" without even realizing the car had had the temerity to be parked in the core earlier in the day...