Downtown outdoor spaces

[danbrotherston]

For bonus points, the transit police literally just walked around the parked cars....UGH...so frustrating...

And what does Transit Security (We don't have Transit Police in this province) have to do with parked cars?  

It has to do with our broken priorities for enforcement. I see more transit police, than I see of any other form of enforcement. In the before times when I rode transit, I was fare inspected multiple times weekly. We are spending a fortune on fare inspection, when our bike lanes, pedestrian squares, are filled with illegally parked vehicles, where our roads are filled with distracted, aggressive, dangerous speeding drivers.

So yeah I certainly felt, the visual juxtiposition of excessive oppressive levels of transit enforcement (of mostly poorer people) walking past four illegally parked including one 130 thousand dollar SUV was quite poignant.

And your comment on the tweet:



To accuse the officer and/or city staff of corruption because you don't like how they do their jobs is a real dickish move...

Coke

I'm sorry, that square was filled with vehicles all day. I called and inquired and the officer wrote "no vehicles found"...so either, they found vehicles and chose not to enforce for some reason, or cannot find Charles and Queen. If they had had a valid reason, they should have written that, instead of "no vehicles found".

Honestly, I don't want to get in a fight with you on this, you can call me a dick if you want, it's not an entirely unfair accusation. I don't like feeling this way, but my feelings are a result of the situation, not a result of me being a suspicious or nasty person...to the contrary, I'm frankly, quite naive.

But it sufficies to say I'm sick of this bullshit.

For what it's worth, I called back later, and inquired about subsequent complaints, and officers returned and this time they quoted the reason for not issuing tickets as the vehicles having permits. So maybe the first officer just made a mistake in recording, I don't know. But I still don't think it's right to have vehicles parked in a pedestrian square.