01-21-2022, 09:53 AM
(01-20-2022, 09:16 PM)plam Wrote:(01-20-2022, 12:20 PM)ac3r Wrote: I'm okay with street parking. People still need to park European cities rely on street parking so they can build city blocks full of actual buildings. It's surface parking lots that are truly undesirable.
I've been (literally) walking around the university a few times this week, and my commute to the university includes Elgin St in Waterloo. There's a lot of construction at that building on Elgin and King. The tradie cars combined with the banks of snow mean that the road is basically one lane, which is kind of sketchy, especially when I'm on a bike. The furniture delivery truck was blocking another car that was trying to get through as well. Perhaps there shouldn't be on street parking while there are huge snowbanks.
I mean, this is a 1 in 10 years storm, so I don't really expect to see roads as wide as they always are. But they also take time. Last time we had a storm like this, the city came in with snow blowers and dump trucks and moved the piles of snow even on my residential street (frankly, I preferred it narrow).
But it is also very common to have parking prohibitions during the winter on certain streets.