General Road and Highway Discussion

[ijmorlan]

Do they park there regularly? For how long?

I’m just curious because while I don’t like it, and we should have better approaches, I understand why trucks park for a few minutes in odd places. Just the other day I saw a truck parked in the bike trail on Erb at King; they were taking drywall into the former Hatashita Jewellers building on the corner. I didn’t like that, but I’m not sure what they should be doing instead. Although I do think that whatever they do, it should be permitted, by which I mean not “allowed” but rather “not done until they obtain a permit from the City”.

On the other hand, if that property just regularly parks their truck on the sidewalk all the time, it should be towed on site from now on.

In this case, the owner/operator of that truck lives there and occasionally moves cars around or whatever in their driveway and also in the generous bit of public property that is also obviously their property.

In that case, it should be unceremoniously towed, the same as it would be if they left it in the middle of the street. Unless it was just there for a couple of minutes while they were moving vehicles around. But in that case why couldn’t they just stash it along the curb in the vehicular part of the street? Sidewalks aren’t built to take that much weight.

Although note that even my language above shows the problem: I’m implicitly granting that where it is shown in the photo is not “in the middle of the street”.